Description

In the height of WWI, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted within an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as much as 100-million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four weeks than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in annually than the Black Death killed in a century. But it was not the Center Ages, and 1918 marked the very first collision of science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research and now revised to reflect the growing threat of the avian flu, The Truly Amazing Influenza is ultimately an account of triumph amid tragedy, which supplies us with an exact and sobering model once we confront the epidemics looming on our very own horizon.