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Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic
Gina Kolata
"The science reporter for the New York Times examines one of the worst epidemics in history. " Library Journal
Touchstone
January 2001
352 pages ISBN: 0743203984 Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
When we think of plagues, we think of AIDS, Ebola, anthrax
spores, and, of course, the Black Death. But in 1918 the
Great Flu Epidemic killed an estimated 40 million people
virtually overnight. If such a plague returned today,
taking a comparable percentage of the U.S. population with
it, 1.5 million Americans would die. In Flu, Gina Kolata, an acclaimed reporter for The New York
Times, unravels the mystery of this lethal virus with the
high drama of a great adventure story. From Alaska to
Norway, from the streets of Hong Kong to the corridors of
the White House, Kolata tracks the race to recover the live
pathogen and probes the fear that has impelled government
policy. A gripping work of science writing, Flu addresses the
prospects for a great epidemic's recurrence and considers
what can be done to prevent it.
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