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Marrin, Albert.
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Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.
Influenza -- History.
Epidemics.
Diseases.
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Marrin, Albert.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.
Influenza -- History.
Epidemics.
Diseases.
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Very
,
very
,
very
dreadful
: the
influenza
pandemic
of
1918
/ Albert Marrin.
by
Marrin, Albert.
Alfred A. Knopf, c2018.
Call #:
614.518 M359v
Subjects
Influenza
Epidemic, 1918-1919.
Influenza
-- History.
Epidemics.
Diseases.
ISBN:
9781101931462 (trade)
9781101931479 (library binding)
Alternate title:
Influenza
pandemic
of nineteen-eighteen.
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
198 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographic references (pages 183-190) and index.
Contents:
Prologue: The great-granddaddy of them all -- The pitiless war -- Diseases of war -- Puny man: drowning in the second wave -- A fear and panic:
influenza
and American society -- To the bitter end -- A detective story.
Summary:
In spring of
1918
, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by
influenza
. By the summer of
1918
, the second wave struck as a highly contagious and lethal epidemic and within weeks exploded into a
pandemic
, an illness that travels rapidly from one continent to another. It would impact the course of the war, and kill many millions more soldiers than warfare itself. Of all diseases, the
1918
flu was by far the worst that has ever afflicted humankind; not even the Black Death of the Middle Ages comes close in terms of the number of lives it took. No war, no natural disaster, no famine has claimed so many. In the space of eighteen months in 1918-1919, about 500 million people--one-third of the global population at the time--came down with
influenza
. The exact total of lives lost will never be known, but the best estimate is between 50 and 100 million.520 In this powerful book, filled with black and white photographs, nonfiction master Albert Marrin examines the history, science, and impact of this great scourge and the possibility for another worldwide
pandemic
today.
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