The Great Influenza : : the Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.

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Previous ed.: New York : Viking, 2004.
"With a new afterword on H1N1 (Swine) flu"--Cover.
Part I: The warriors -- Part II: The swarm -- Part III: The tinderbox -- Part IV: It begins -- Part V: Explosion -- Part VI: The pestilence -- Part VII: The race -- Part VIII: The tolling of the bell -- Part IX: Lingerer -- Part X: Endgame. -- -- -- AFTERWARD -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Photographic credits.
At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Revised to reflect the growing danger of the avian flu, this is ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, providing us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon.--From publisher description.

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Wow. submitted by Xris on December 27, 2020, 12:46pm Lots of information about how the medical field changed, how scientists conducted their experiments to find a cause for the pandemic, that lead to other breakthroughs in medicine. Also, insightful on how society dealt with a pandemic, or didn't, and how it went hand in hand with WWI. Interesting reading while going through a pandemic of our own on a similar infection level.