The Great Influenza Book
Score: 3.5
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The Great Influenza

  • Author : John M. Barry
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • File Size : 11,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 2005-10-04
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 580
  • ISBN 10 : 0143036491
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#1 New York Times bestseller “Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.”—Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."—Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. As Barry concludes, "The final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that...those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart." At the height of World War I, 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.

Flu Book
Score: 3.5
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Flu

  • Author : Gina Kolata
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • File Size : 12,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2011-04-01
  • Genre: Social Science
  • Pages : 330
  • ISBN 10 : 9781429979351
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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 were sickened and killed by the flu in such numbers that entire villages were wiped out. Scientists have recently rediscovered shards of the flu virus frozen in Alaska and preserved in scraps of tissue in a government warehouse. Gina Kolata, an acclaimed reporter for The New York Times, unravels the mystery of this lethal virus with the high drama of a great adventure story. Delving into the history of the flu and previous epidemics, detailing the science and the latest understanding of this mortal disease, Kolata addresses the prospects for a great epidemic recurring, and, most important, what can be done to prevent it.

Influenza Book
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Influenza

  • Author : Jeremy Brown
  • Publisher : Atria Books
  • File Size : 8,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 2019-10-01
  • Genre: Social Science
  • Pages : 272
  • ISBN 10 : 9781501181252
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“Highlights that influenza is still a real and present threat and demonstrates the power and limitations of modern medicine.” —The Wall Street Journal “A surprisingly compelling and accessible story of one of the world’s most deadly diseases. It is timely and interesting, engaging and sobering.” —David Gregort, CNN political analyst and former moderator for NBC’s Meet the Press A veteran ER doctor explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history and present-day research of the flu virus, from the origins of the Great Flu that killed millions, to vexing questions such as: are we prepared for the next epidemic, should you get a flu shot, and how close are we to finding a cure? While influenza is now often thought of as a common but mild disease, it still kills more than thirty thousand people in the United States each year. Dr. Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor and director of the Office of Emergency Care Research at the National Institutes of Health, talks with leading epidemiologists, policy makers, and the researcher who first sequenced the genetic building blocks of the original 1918 virus to offer both a comprehensive history and a road map to protect us from the next outbreak. Dr. Brown explores the terrifying and complex history of the flu virus and looks at the controversy over vaccinations and the federal government’s role in preparing for pandemic outbreaks. Though a hundred years of advancement in medical research and technology have passed since the 1918 disaster, Dr. Brown warns that many of the most vital questions about the flu virus continue to confound even the leading experts.

America s Forgotten Pandemic Book
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America s Forgotten Pandemic

  • Author : Alfred W. Crosby
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • File Size : 18,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2003-07-21
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : null
  • ISBN 10 : 9781107394018
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Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives - more people than perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu pandemic is largely forgotten today. In this vivid narrative, Alfred W. Crosby recounts the course of the pandemic during the panic-stricken months of 1918 and 1919, measures its impact on American society, and probes the curious loss of national memory of this cataclysmic event. This 2003 edition includes a preface discussing the then recent outbreaks of diseases, including the Asian flu and the SARS epidemic.

The Threat of Pandemic Influenza Book

The Threat of Pandemic Influenza

  • Author : Institute of Medicine
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • File Size : 16,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2005-04-09
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 431
  • ISBN 10 : 9780309095044
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Public health officials and organizations around the world remain on high alert because of increasing concerns about the prospect of an influenza pandemic, which many experts believe to be inevitable. Moreover, recent problems with the availability and strain-specificity of vaccine for annual flu epidemics in some countries and the rise of pandemic strains of avian flu in disparate geographic regions have alarmed experts about the world's ability to prevent or contain a human pandemic. The workshop summary, The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready? addresses these urgent concerns. The report describes what steps the United States and other countries have taken thus far to prepare for the next outbreak of "killer flu." It also looks at gaps in readiness, including hospitals' inability to absorb a surge of patients and many nations' incapacity to monitor and detect flu outbreaks. The report points to the need for international agreements to share flu vaccine and antiviral stockpiles to ensure that the 88 percent of nations that cannot manufacture or stockpile these products have access to them. It chronicles the toll of the H5N1 strain of avian flu currently circulating among poultry in many parts of Asia, which now accounts for the culling of millions of birds and the death of at least 50 persons. And it compares the costs of preparations with the costs of illness and death that could arise during an outbreak.

Pale Rider Book
Score: 3.5
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Pale Rider

  • Author : Laura Spinney
  • Publisher : Random House
  • File Size : 18,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2017-06-01
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 352
  • ISBN 10 : 9781473523920
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Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer – and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic. 'Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story... Pale Rider is not just an excavation but a reimagining of the past' Guardian With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I. In Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa. She shows how the pandemic was shaped by the interaction of a virus and the humans it encountered; and how this devastating natural experiment put both the ingenuity and the vulnerability of humans to the test. Laura Spinney demonstrates that the Spanish flu was as significant – if not more so – as two world wars in shaping the modern world; in disrupting, and often permanently altering, global politics, race relations, family structures, and thinking across medicine, religion and the arts. ‘Weaves together global history and medical science to great effect ... Riveting.’ Sunday Times

The Great Influenza Book
Score: 3.5
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The Great Influenza

  • Author : John M. Barry
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • File Size : 7,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2005-10-04
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 609
  • ISBN 10 : 9780143036494
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#1 New York Times bestseller “Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.”—Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."—Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. As Barry concludes, "The final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that...those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart." At the height of World War I, 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.

A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics Book

A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics

  • Author : Mark Honigsbaum
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
  • File Size : 17,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 2020-04-30
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 328
  • ISBN 10 : 1350160083
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Influenza was the great killer of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the so-called 'Russian flu' killed around 1 million people across Europe in 1889-93 - including the second-in-line to the British throne, the Duke of Clarence. The Spanish flu of 1918, meanwhile, would kill 50 million people - nearly 3% of the world's population. Here, Mark Honigsbaum outlines the history of influenza in the period, and describes how the fear of disease permeated Victorian culture. These fears were amplified by the invention of the telegraph and the ability of the new mass-market press to whip up public hysteria. The flu was therefore a barometer of wider fin de siecle social and cultural anxieties - playing on fears engendered by economic decline, technology, urbanisation and degeneration. A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics is a vital new contribution towards our understanding of European history and the history of the media.

The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 Book

The Influenza Pandemic of 1918

  • Author : Claire O'Neal
  • Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
  • File Size : 8,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2008-03
  • Genre: Science
  • Pages : 32
  • ISBN 10 : 9781612288550
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In 1918, the deadliest virus in human history struck worldwide with hardly any warning. A victim of the Spanish flu could wake up healthy and fall down dead the same day. In the United States, so many people fell ill that schools and churches closed. There weren’t enough healthy doctors and nurses to care for the sick, or enough healthy gravediggers to bury the dead. When U.S. troops joined World War I that year, they couldn’t have imagined that more soldiers would die from the flu than fighting. The Spanish flu claimed between 50 million and 100 million lives globally in less than a year. Now, less than a century later, new strains of bird flu are killing people in Asia in much the same way. Are we on the verge of another deadly pandemic?

American Pandemic Book

American Pandemic

  • Author : Nancy K. Bristow
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • File Size : 19,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 2012
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 295
  • ISBN 10 : 9780190238551
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"In 1918-1919 influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history. Focusing on those closest to the crisis--patients, families, communities, public health officials, nurses and doctors--this book explores the epidemic in the United States"--

The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 1919 Book

The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 1919

  • Author : María Isabel Porras Gallo
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • File Size : 7,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2014
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 292
  • ISBN 10 : 9781580464963
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Sheds new light on what the WHO described as "the single most devastating infectious disease outbreak ever recorded," focusing on social control, gender, class, religion, national identity, and military medicine's reactions to the pandemic.

1918 Influenza Pandemic Facts Book

1918 Influenza Pandemic Facts

  • Author : Kelsey GRAY
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • File Size : 20,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2020-05-29
  • Genre: Uncategoriezed
  • Pages : 86
  • ISBN 10 : 9798649483384
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1918 INFLUENZA PANDEMIC FACTS Today, Get Your Copy For Your Bookshelve!!! How Does The 1918 Influenza Pandemic Compares To Our Current Pandemic? Kelsey teaches you almost everything about The Great Influenza Outbreak and how it is extremely just like the current epidemic we are facing right now. This book is packed with the history of other pandemics and the biggest one the world has ever faced. When you dive into this simple to read book, it's mind-blowing how the measures the world is taking today, is the exact same measures taken in 1918 Influenza Virus to survive it. Do You Want To Unpack and Get A Greater Understanding Of What Viruses Are? This book will unpack this scary and uncertain times we are living in by examining the past. "History repeats itself", and this is just not a cool quote. It all makes sense when you realize what this world has faced. This book will give its readers simple digestible content that will spark hope and optimism during this crisis. The biggest and Strongest way to build assurance is to be knowledgable and have information that serves you and your future. This book will arm you with the history you can use to survive and win this battle and get through this pandemic. Can We Trust Elected Officials and Health Organizations To Get Us Through This Outbreak? The past leaves clues for generations to come, so that we can use it to preserve human existence. Our government and governments around the world combatted the world's deadliest Virus and saved lives so that mankind can live on. In this trying time, if you are worried and or are concerned about our authority figures, dive into this book. The clues and proof is in the pudding of how and what our officials did in the past that will secure our future. Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... Full History and Facts About The Spanish Flu What Safety Measures Were Taken In The Past Where Did The Influenza Outbreak Come From What Where The Symptoms Of The Great Influenza How Many People

Nova Scotia and the Great Influenza Pandemic 1918 1920 Book

Nova Scotia and the Great Influenza Pandemic 1918 1920

  • Author : Ruth Holmes Whitehead
  • Publisher : Nimbus Publishing Limited
  • File Size : 12,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2020-10-31
  • Genre: Uncategoriezed
  • Pages : 400
  • ISBN 10 : 1771089156
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The definitive academic resource on the Great Influenza at the beginning of the twentieth century threaded with the human stories of the people that lived and died in the three year pandemic in Nova Scotia.

Living with Enza Book

Living with Enza

  • Author : M. Honigsbaum
  • Publisher : Springer
  • File Size : 8,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 2016-10-18
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 237
  • ISBN 10 : 9780230239210
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'Never since the Black Death has such a plague swept over the face of the world,' commented the Times , '[and] never, perhaps, has a plague been more stoically accepted.' When the Great Influenza pandemic finally ended, in April 1919, 228,000 people in Britian alone were dead. This book tells the story of the Great Influenza pandemic.

The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 1919 Book

The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 1919

  • Author : David Killingray
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 17,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2003-09-02
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 384
  • ISBN 10 : 9781134566402
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The Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was the worst pandemic of modern times, claiming over 30 million lives in less than six months. In the hardest hit societies, everything else was put aside in a bid to cope with its ravages. It left millions orphaned and medical science desperate to find its cause. Despite the magnitude of its impact, few scholarly attempts have been made to examine this calamity in its many-sided complexity. On a global, multidisciplinary scale, the book seeks to apply the insights of a wide range of social and medical sciences to an investigation of the pandemic. Topics covered include the historiography of the pandemic, its virology, the enormous demographic impact, the medical and governmental responses it elicited, and its long-term effects, particularly the recent attempts to identify the precise causative virus from specimens taken from flu victims in 1918, or victims buried in the Arctic permafrost at that time.