|
|
Product Description
A national bestseller, the fast-paced and gripping account of the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918 from acclaimed science journalist Gina Kolata, now featuring a new epilogue about avian flu.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 forty million people virtually overnight. If such a plague returned today, taking a comparable percentage of the US 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.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
- Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World 1st edition by Sherman, Irwin W. (2007) Paperback
- Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
- Polio: An American Story
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
- America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918
- The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story
- The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
- Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History
- Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
*If this is not the "Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link
.
Details were last updated on Apr 10, 2024 09:48 +08.
