The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history (repost)
The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history By John M. Barry
Publisher: Pen..guin Boo..ks 2005 | 546 Pages | ISBN: 0143036491 | EPUB | 1 MB
Publisher: Pen..guin Boo..ks 2005 | 546 Pages | ISBN: 0143036491 | EPUB | 1 MB
In 1918, a plague swept across the world virtually without warning, killing healthy young adults as well as vulnerable infants and the elderly. Hospitals and morgues were quickly overwhelmed; in Philadelphia, 4,597 people died in one week alone and bodies piled up on the streets to be carted off to mass graves. But this was not the dreaded Black Death-it was "only influenza." In this sweeping history, Barry (Rising Tide) explores how the deadly confluence of biology (a swiftly mutating flu virus that can pass between animals and humans) and politics (President Wilson's all-out war effort in WWI) created conditions in which the virus thrived, killing more than 50 million worldwide and perhaps as many as 100 million in just a year.