Flu
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780641626838 (0641626835)
Publish date: January 28th 2001
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Book Club,
Science,
Biology,
Health,
Medical,
American History,
Medicine,
Illness,
Disease
”This is a detective story. Here was a mass murderer that was around 80 years ago and who’s never been brought to justice. And what we’re trying to do is find the murderer.”--Jeffery Taubenberger, molecular pathologistThere are estimates that the 1918 Flu killed anywhere from 20 million to 100 milli...
Beautifully research, well-told story of the first 20th-century "plague." It has happened before, and it will happen again. In a war between us and the buggies, they can adapt faster than we can react.
I really enjoyed this book. The book covers a range of time from the beginning of the 1918-19 flu right up to still lingering questions about what made that particular flu strain so deadly and why it affected the young and healthy as much as the elderly and very young.I really learned a lot about t...
Outstanding. I picked it up a second time because it's in my interests, without recognizing it. It was outstanding the second time through, so I finished it again.
The title says it all.
25 years ago
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