Stuff
Product Details
Touchstone, January 2001
Trade Paperback, 352 pages
ISBN-10: 0743203984
ISBN-13: 9780743203982
Description
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 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 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.
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Time magazine
A chilling read...packed with new information and astonishments.
Dr. Jerome Groopman
Boston Sunday Globe
Moves at a rapid pace, with vivid prose and graphic scenes...A masterly recounting of medical history.
John R. Alden
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Kolata reports this story with all the fervor of Coleridge's ancient mariner, gripping her readers in the book's first paragraph and not letting go until her tale is told.
Beryl Lieff Benderly
The Washington Post
Kolata commands the intelligent curiosity, well-honed reporting techniques, and smooth prose style of a top science reporter.
WSU News, September 15, 2011
...lecture at WSU. Muller is the fifth. Past speakers have included Greg Mortenson, Michael Pollan, Mary Roach and Gina Kolata, who wrote, respectively, "Stones into Schools,” "Omnivore’s Dilemma,” "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human ...
The Age, May 15, 2009
...if world events lately have left us alert if not alarmed, and sometimes relaxed enough to enjoy swine flu jokes, now might be as good a time as any to consider what writers have to tell us about highly contagious and fatal illness. Sometimes ...
STLtoday.com, May 2, 2009
...Google Fark Stumble It! Even though Americans are being warned not to panic over the H1N1 virus (swine flu), and some doctors predict it won?t be much more dangerous than the usual seasonal flus, online book sellers have had an uptick in ...
