Very, very, very dreadful : the influenza pandemic of 1918

The Resource Very, very, very dreadful : the influenza pandemic of 1918
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Very, very, very dreadful : the influenza pandemic of 1918
Title remainder
the influenza pandemic of 1918
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Albert Marrin
Title variation
  • Influenza pandemic of 1918
  • Influenza pandemic of nineteen-eighteen
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Language
eng
Summary
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.--Provided by Publisher
Awards note
A Junior Library Guild selection.
Cataloging source
YDX
Dewey number
614.5/1809041
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
LC call number
RC150.4
LC item number
.M38 2018
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Target audience
adolescent

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