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The Great Influenza

Paperback • 2005 • English

The Great Influenza

By John M. Barry

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About the book

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 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 a...Show more

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9780143036494

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

The Great Influenza

Format

Paperback

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