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Title |
Pandemic 1918 : eyewitness accounts from the greatest medical holocaust in modern history / Catharine Arnold. |
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Publisher |
New York : St. Martin's Press, c2018. |
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Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
Descript |
357 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
Note |
Nonfiction. |
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"First published in Great Britain by Michael O'Mara Books Limited."--Title page verso. |
Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-344) and index. |
Contents |
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. |
Summary |
"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. |
Subject |
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.
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Influenza -- Epidemiology -- History -- 20th century.
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Influenza -- History -- 20th century.
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Epidemics -- History -- 20th century.
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Added Title |
Pandemic nineteen eighteen. |
ISBN/ISSN |
1250139430 |
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9781250139436 |
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