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100 1 Barry, John M.,|d1947-|eauthor.
245 14 The great influenza :|bthe story of the deadliest pandemic
in history /|cJohn M. Barry.
264 1 UK :|bPenguin Books,|c2020.
300 530 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :|billustrations
(black and white) ;|c20 cm
336 text|2rdacontent
336 still image|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|2rdamedia
338 volume|2rdacarrier
500 Originally published: New York: Viking Penguin, 2004.
505 0 The warriors -- The swarm -- The tinderbox -- It begins --
Explosion -- The pestilence -- The race -- The tolling of
the bell -- Lingerer -- Endgame.
520 In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human
history. What can the story of the so-called Spanish Flu
teach us about the fight against present day crises, and
how to prepare for future outbreaks? 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, The Great Influenza is
ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, which provides
us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the
aftermath of Covid-19 and future pandemics looming on the
horizon.
650 0 Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.
650 0 Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919|zUnited States.
650 0 Medicine|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century.
650 0 Influenza|xHistory|y20th century.
650 7 Health and Wellbeing.|2ukslc
