The Great Influenza  -  John M. Barry

The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

KORTE INHOUD

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 revis...
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2005 Uitgever: Penguin 546 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0143036491 ISBN-13: 9780143036494