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FluGina Kolata, Gina Kolata et al.
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Flu

338 pagesFirst published 199912 editions
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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…

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Editions

12 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 2001
    Diane Pub Co · 330 pages · 9780756756253
  • Paperback · English · 2001
    Pan Books · 352 pages · 9780330484237
  • Hardcover · English · 2000
    Farrar Straus Giroux · 400 pages · 9780333751053
  • Paperback · English · 1999
    Diane Pub Co · 330 pages · 9780756782771
  • Other · English · 2011
    Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9781429979351
  • Other · English · 2005
    Simon & Schuster · 338 pages · 9780743203982
InfluenzaHistoryGrippe humaineDisease OutbreaksE pide miesEtiologie (geneeskunde)PandemieHistoire