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050 10 $aRC150.4$b.K64 2001
082 00 $a614.5/18/09041$221
100 1 $aKolata, Gina Bari,$d1948-
245 10 $aFlu :$bthe story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it /$cGina Kolata.
250 $a1st Touchstone ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon & Schuster,$cc2001.
300 $axi, 330 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
500 $a"A Touchstone book."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [309]-320) and index.
505 00 $tPrologue --$g1. The$tplague year --$g2. A$thistory of disease and death --$g3.$tFrom sailors to swine --$g4. A$tSwedish adventurer --$g5.$tSwine flu --$g6. A$tlitigation nightmare --$g7.$tJohn Dalton's eyeballs --$g8. An$tincident in Hong Kong --$g9.$tFrom Alaska to Norway --$g10.$tMysteries and hypotheses --$tEpilogue --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tIndex.
520 $aThe fascinating, true story of the world's deadliest disease. In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic felled the young and healthy virtually overnight. An estimated forty million people died as the epidemic raged. Children were left orphaned and families were devastated. As many American soldiers were killed by the 1918 flu as were killed in battle during World War I. And no area of the globe was safe. Eskimos living in remote outposts in the frozen tundra were sickened and killed by the flu in such numbers that entire villages were wiped out. Scientists have recently rediscovered shards of the flu virus frozen in Alaska and preserved in scraps of tissue in a government warehouse. The author unravels the mystery of this lethal virus with the high drama of a great adventure story. Delving into the history of the flu and previous epidemics, detailing the science and the latest understanding of this mortal disease, sheaddresses the prospects for a great epidemic recurring, and, most important, what can be done to prevent it.
650 0 $aInfluenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.
650 0 $aInfluenza$xHistory$y20th century.
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