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

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

In 1918 the Great Flu Epidemic killed an estimated 40 million people virtually overnight. If such a plague returned today, taking a comparable percentage of the U.S. population with it, 1.5 million Am…

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