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Title
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Flu : the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it
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Description
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Unravels the mystery of this lethal virus with the high drama of a great adventure story. Kolata tracks the race to recover the live pathogen and probes the fear that has impelled government policy. She delves into the history of the flu and previous epidemics, profiles the experts hot on the trail and the amateurs woefully misguided, and details the science and the latest understanding of this mortal disease. -- Jacket.
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Identifier
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827671
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374157065
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Creator
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Kolata, Gina Bari
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Format
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1st ed.
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Source
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Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection
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Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.
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Catalog record
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Language
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eng
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Date
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1999
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Program air date: February 27, 2000
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Publisher
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives
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Text
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Transcription of Annotations
Front endpapers and fly sheet contain statistical information on the 1918 flu outbreak and a reference to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology which had been created by Lincoln during the Civil War and housed between 3 and 4 million tissue samples. Also noted is the fact that all flus can be traced back to Guangdong Province in China. Other notes refer to Alfred Crosby's book 'America's forgotten pandemic', to Dr. Jeffrey Taubenberger's 1995 experiment to discover the 1918 flu virus, to the forgotten letter by 'Roy' detailing the progression of the flu epidemic in Fort Devens near Boston, to earlier pandemics, e.g. the outbreak of the plague in Athens described by Thucydides, the spread of the Black Death in the 14th century from China to Europe, to the swine flu outbreak in 1976, the H5N1 flu in 1997, and to one experiment involving 62 Navy prisoners, as well as two others carried out in Boston and San Francisco. It is noted that in 1918 millions of pigs became ill in the Midwest, and that it has been discovered that in Southern China the virus was transmitted from birds to pigs to humans. Also included is a reference to Johan Hultin and Otto Geist who tried to identify the flu virus in victims of the disease whose bodies had been preserved frozen in the permafrost in Brevig, Alaska. -- Annotations by Brian Lamb in the margins and underlining of pertinent phrases throughout the book.
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Subject
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"Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919."
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"Influenza--History--20th century."
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Relation
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Original Booknotes interview
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Rights
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