An edition of The Great Influenza (2004)

The Great Influenza

The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

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An edition of The Great Influenza (2004)

The Great Influenza

The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

  • 3.9 (17 ratings) ·
  • 121 Want to read
  • 9 Currently reading
  • 23 Have read

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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Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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2020, Penguin Books, Limited, Penguin
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2008, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
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The Great Influenza
March 16, 2006, Penguin Highbridge (Aud)
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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
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The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history
October 4, 2005, Penguin Books
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Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
2005, Penguin Publishing Group
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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History
February 5, 2004, Viking Adult
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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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2003057646

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OL7361445M
Internet Archive
greatinfluenzath00barr
ISBN 10
0143034480
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9780143034483
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13856
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753353

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