The Great Influenza
The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by John M. Barry
Recommended by 10 notable people, including Bill Gates and Balaji S. Srinivasan
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Recommended by 12 sources and appears in Infectious Diseases, Books Recommended by Bill Gates, and Most Recommended Books.
At the height of WWI, historys 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 twentyfour months than AIDS killed in twentyfour years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not th...
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