Pandemic 1918 eyewitness accounts from the greatest medical holocaust in modern history
"Before HIV or Ebola, there was the Spanish flu--this narrative history marks the one hundredth anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history"--Dust jacket flap.
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| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
St. Martin's Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: An ill wind
- A victim and a survivor
- "Knock me down" fever
- The killer without a name
- The invisible enemy
- One deadly summer
- Know thy enemy
- The fangs of death
- Like fighting with a ghost
- Eye of the storm
- A winding sheet and a wooden box
- The Spanish Lady goes to Washington
- "You can't do anything for flu"
- "Native daughter dies"
- The fatal voyage
- Ship of death
- "Like a thief in the night"
- The dying fall
- Armistice Day
- Black November
- Aftermath
- "Viral archaeology"
- The Hong Kong connection
- Secrets of the grave.
