No war, no natural disaster, no famine has claimed so many. 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. It would impact the course of the war, and kill many millions more soldiers than warfare itself. 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. In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. From National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin comes a fascinating look at the history and science of the deadly 1918 flu pandemic-and its chilling and timely resemblance to the worldwide coronavirus outbreak.
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