Very, very, very dreadful : the influenza pandemic of 1918 / Albert Marrin.
By: Marrin, Albert [author.].
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, ©2018Edition: First edition.Description: 198 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781101931479.Other title: Influenza pandemic of nineteen-eighteen.Subject(s): Influenza Epidemic (1918-1919) | 1918-1919 | Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- Juvenile literature | Influenza -- History -- Juvenile literature | Epidemics -- Juvenile literature | Diseases -- Juvenile literature | Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 | Influenza -- History | Epidemics | Diseases | YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION -- Health & Daily Living -- Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries | YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION -- United States -- History -- 20th Century | YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION -- Science & Nature -- Biology | Epidemics | Diseases | InfluenzaGenre/Form: Juvenile works. | History. | History. | Juvenile works. | Young adult nonfiction. | Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references, references (pages 183-190) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-190) and index.
Prologue: The great-granddaddy of them all -- The pitiless war -- Diseases of war -- Puny man: drowning in the second wave -- A fear and panic : influenza and American society -- To the bitter end -- A detective story.
In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of 1918, the second wave struck as a highly contagious and lethal epidemic and within weeks exploded into a pandemic, an illness that travels rapidly from one continent to another. It would impact the course of the war, and kill many millions more soldiers than warfare itself. Of all diseases, the 1918 flu was by far the worst that has ever afflicted humankind; not even the Black Death of the Middle Ages comes close in terms of the number of lives it took. No war, no natural disaster, no famine has claimed so many. In the space of eighteen months in 1918-1919, about 500 million people--one-third of the global population at the time--came down with influenza. The exact total of lives lost will never be known, but the best estimate is between 50 and 100 million.--