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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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    Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It
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    Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It

    Published by Penguin Random House Audio

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    About this audiobook

    A national bestseller, the fast-paced and gripping account of the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918 from acclaimed science journalist Gina Kolata, now featuring a new epilogue about avian flu.

    When we think of plagues, we think of AIDS, Ebola, anthrax spores, and, of course, the Black Death. But in 1918 the Great Flu Epidemic killed an estimated forty million people virtually overnight. If such a plague returned today, taking a comparable percentage of the US population with it, 1.5 million Americans would die.

    In Flu, Gina Kolata, an acclaimed reporter for The New York Times, unravels the mystery of this lethal virus with the high drama of a great adventure story. From Alaska to Norway, from the streets of Hong Kong to the corridors of the White House, Kolata tracks the race to recover the live pathogen and probes the fear that has impelled government policy.

    A gripping work of science writing, Flu addresses the prospects for a great epidemic's recurrence and considers what can be done to prevent it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 16, 2001
    ISBN9780375419225
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    • 1/5
      Intolerable. Gina Kolata, author, did not somehow magically transform into Gina Kolata, narrator. Listening to her vaguely speech-impediment voice just makes one want to turn the page . . . permanently. Gave up after two chapters. AWFUL.