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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 and now revised to reflect the growing danger of the avian flu, The Great Influenza is ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, which provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon.
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Influenza, Medical, Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919, Nonfiction, Medicine, History, Influenza Epidemic (1918-1919) fast (OCoLC)fst01754995, Epidemics, Medicine, history, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2020-03-29, New York Times bestseller, Human Influenza, Disease Outbreaks, History, 20th Century, Grippe, Histoire, Épidémie de grippe espagnole, 1918-1919, Médecine, Preventive Medicine, Forensic Medicine, Public Health, Epidemieën, Influensa, Historia, Geschichte 1918, EpidemieenShowing 4 featured editions. View all 19 editions?
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The Great Influenza
2008, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
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0786586516 9780786586516
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The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history
October 4, 2005, Penguin Books
in English
0143036491 9780143036494
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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
February 1, 2005, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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0143034480 9780143034483
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The great influenza: the epic story of the deadliest plague in history
2004, Viking
0670894737 9780670894734
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"ON SEPTEMBER 12, 1876, the crowd overflowing the auditorium of Baltimore's Academy of Music was in a mood of hopeful excitement, but excitement without frivolity."
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