Joyce's review
Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic
by Gina Kolata
Joyce's review
Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic by Gina Kolata
Joyce's review
rating:
Inspired by the novel, "The Last Town on Earth," I decided to learn more about the 1918 flu epidemic which killed as many as 100 million people around the world. This book, while interesting, is not really about the 1918 pandemic. It's about the efforts to find out what actually caused the flu, so it follows researchers for 80 years. As of the conclusion of this book in 1998, scientists were still not quite sure what caused that incredibly deadly strain. The most interesting section is about the attempt to innoculate everyone in the United States against the swine flu in 1976 and how scientists struggle to try to predict the next great pandemic and how to treat it.
