Bibliograph

The 1918 influenza pandemic, by Stephanie True Peters

Type

Label

The 1918 influenza pandemic, by Stephanie True Peters

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The 1918 influenza pandemic

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

54081779

Responsibility statement

by Stephanie True Peters

Series statement

Peters, Stephanie True,

Summary

Describes the 1918 influenza pandemic, from how World War I soldiers spread the disease to recent scientific efforts to understand the virus that took between twenty and forty million lives worldwide

Table Of Contents

What is influenza? -- History of influenza -- Spanish flu -- First wave -- First World War -- First wave washes over the world -- Second wave -- Flu hits Boston -- Fort Devens -- flu spreads -- Flu in Philadelphia -- Flu in San Francisco -- Elsewhere in the United States -- End of the war and the flu -- Third wave -- Looking back -- Failure of medical science -- Failure of public health -- Search for a killer -- Eighty-year-old lungs -- Spitsbergen Project

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification