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 A national bestseller, the fast-paced and gripping account of the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918 from acclaimed science journalist Gina Kolata, now featuring a new epilogue about avian flu.

When we think of plagues, we think of AIDS, Ebola, anthrax spores, and, of course, the Black Death. But in 1918 the Great Flu Epidemic killed an estimated forty million people virtually overnight. If such a plague returned today, taking a comparable percentage of the US population with it, 1.5 million Americans would die.

In Flu, 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. From Alaska to Norway, from the streets of Hong Kong to the corridors of the White House, Kolata tracks the race to recover the live pathogen and probes the fear that has impelled government policy.

A gripping work of science writing, Flu addresses the prospects for a great epidemic’s recurrence and considers what can be done to prevent it.Executive Producer: Jacob Bronstein
Producer: Paul Ruben
Original Jacket Photograph and Design by Timothy Hsu
Sot Art Courtesy of NIBSC, Science Source/Photo Researches
Author Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
©1999 Gina Kolata
(P) Random House, Inc. 20th Century Contagious Diseases Education Higher & Continuing Education Modern Physical Illness & Disease
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Great book, very easy to listen to couldn't put it down till it was finished.

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Easy listening, informative, balanced and thought provoking.

Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza

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