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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
by John M Barry
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ISBN13: 9780143036494 
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In the winter of 1918, at the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, John M. Barry weaves together multiple narratives, with characters ranging from William Welch (founder of Johns Hopkins Medical School) to John D. Rockefeller and Woodrow Wilson. Ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, this crisis provides a precise and sobering model for our world as we confront AIDS, bioterrorism, and other, as yet unknown, diseases.
Review:
Monumental... powerfully intelligent... not just a masterful narrative... but also an authoritative and disturbing morality tale. (Chicago Tribune) Easily our fullest, richest, most panoramic history of the subject. (The New York Times Book Review)
Synopsis:
At the height of WWI, historys most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research and now revised to reflect the growing danger of the avian flu, The Great Influenza is ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, which provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon.
About the Author
'John M. Barry is the author of four previous books, including the highly acclaimed and award- winning Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It ChangedAmerica.'
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Taynb, January 17, 2008 (view all comments by Taynb)
If you have ever were curious about infectious diseases, you will be interested in this. The book is based on the 1918 influenza epidemic, that seemed to have no end because it seemed to be misdiagnosed in so many people. It was hard hit among the young and old but also spread through soldiers during WWI. Seemed to spread through troop movement and when soldiers came back home. It tended to get a little repetitive in the last 100 pages but still a good read.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780143036494
- Subtitle:
- The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books
- Subject:
- Medicine
- Subject:
- History
- Subject:
- Modern - 20th Century
- Subject:
- Infectious Diseases
- Subject:
- General History
- Edition Description:
- Revised
- Publication Date:
- October 2005
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 546
- Dimensions:
- 850x546x119 115
