The Great Influenza (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Kevin Durdle’s request to change the title of The Great Influenza Sunday, October 4 2009.

Kevin Durdle changed the title of The Great Influenza Thursday, October 1 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of The Great Influenza Saturday, August 1 2009.

• At the height of WWI, history’s 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 twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research and now revised to reflect the growing danger of the avian flu, The Great Influenza is ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, which provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. John M. Barry has written a new afterword for this edition that brings us up to speed on the terrible threat of the avian flu and suggest ways in which we might head off another flu pandemic.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Great Influenza Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: John M. Barry: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Great Influenza Friday, July 17 2009.

• ON SEPTEMBER 12, 1876, the crowd overflowing the auditorium of Baltimore's Academy of Music was in a mood of hopeful excitement, but excitement without frivolity.