00000cam a22000004a 4500 UP-1685523046126252833 Buklod 20131024143746.0 m o j ta 100617s2009 nyum rb a001 0|eng d 9780143036494 (iLib)UPMNL-00013078379 CPH-14861 Purchase Php1,275.00 UP CPH rda eng RC150.4 B37 2009 Barry, John M. 1947- The great influenza the story of the deadliest pandemic in history. John M. Barry. Ed. with new afterword. New York Penguin Books 2009. 546 p. ill. 22 cm. Previous ed.: New York : Viking, 2004. "With a new afterword on H1N1 (Swine) flu"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-527) and index (p. [529]-546) 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. Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919. Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 United States. Medicine United States History 20th century. Influenza, Human history United States. Disease Outbreaks history United States. History, 20th Century United States. UPMNL CPH RC150.4 B37 2009 Book