Living with Enza : the forgotten story of Britain and the great flu pandemic of 1918 / Mark Honigsbaum.

By:

Honigsbaum, Mark

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Macmillan, c2009.Description: xvii, 237 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cmISBN:

0230217745
9780230217744

DDC classification:

614.518094109041 22

LOC classification:

RA644.I6 H58 2009

Contents:

Influenza : a primer -- Prelude : Etaples, winter 1916-1918 -- First wave, March-August 1918 -- Second wave, September-December 1918 -- Third wave, February-May 1919 -- Vietnam, February 2005 -- Britain, summer 2012.

Review: "Based on unpublished testimonies from flu survivors and the memoirs of doctors, soldiers and civil servants, this is the true stroy of Britain's 'forgotten' pandemic and the continuing scientific effort to unravel the secrets of the virus. For though the Great Flu has receded from public memory the threat of pandemic influenza has not gone away. Perhaps the next pandemic will come in 2012, or perhaps it will come sooner. Perhaps it will start in China, as several experts have been predicting for some years now, or perhaps the seat of the next outbreak will be Bangladesh. Whatever the case, we need to ready."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Based on unpublished testimonies from flu survivors and the memoirs of doctors, soldiers and civil servants, this is the true stroy of Britain's 'forgotten' pandemic and the continuing scientific effort to unravel the secrets of the virus. For though the Great Flu has receded from public memory the threat of pandemic influenza has not gone away. Perhaps the next pandemic will come in 2012, or perhaps it will come sooner. Perhaps it will start in China, as several experts have been predicting for some years now, or perhaps the seat of the next outbreak will be Bangladesh. Whatever the case, we need to ready."--BOOK JACKET.

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