The Great influenza : the epic story of the deadliest plague in history
In the winter of 1918, the coldest the American Midwest had ever endured, history's most lethal influenza virus was born. Over the next year it flourished, killing as many as 100 million people. It killed more people in twenty-four weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty-four years, more people in a year than the Black Death of the Middle Ages killed in a century. There were many echoes of the Middle Ages in 1918: victims turned blue-black and priests in some of the world's most modern cities drove horse-drawn carts down the streets, calling upon people to bring out their dead
546 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
9780143036494, 0143036491
777891871
The warriors
The swarm
The tinderbox
It begins
Explosion
The pestilence
The race
The tolling of the bell
Lingerer
Endgame