America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918

Title: America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918
Author: Alfred W Crosby
American History: 1703311
ISBN: 9780521386951
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: English Language
Number of Pages: 351
Section: Medical | History
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Publisher Description: Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide claiming over 25 million lives, more people than perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu pandemic is largely forgotten today. In this vivid narrative, Alfred W. Crosby recounts the course of the pandemic during the panic-striken months of 1918 and 1919, measures its impact on American society, and probes the curious loss of national memory of this cataclysmic event.