Guest guest Posted October 13, 2005 Report Share Posted October 13, 2005 Very coincidental...I went to the library and just picked up Kolata's " FLU " book today...looks like a good one. This book is in large print easy to read. thx for review ! Jefree FLU The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It By Kolata Illustrated. 330 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $25. In September 1918 a mass murderer was on the loose. Europeans, Americans, Asians, Africans, Eskimos, Polynesians, men and women from the Arctic to Australia died in hours from this killer. In Ottawa streetcars were largely empty, theaters and movie houses were dark. In Reading, England, schools turned into hospitals, and morgues. In Cape Town coffins became so scarce that many of the dead were buried in mass graves. More Americans died by this mighty hand than were killed in all the battles of World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War: half a million in all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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