Gina Bari Kolata
1) Flu: the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
The 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...