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Flu The Story of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused it

This book had been a little boring to me until about the end of the first chapter where it started intriguing me, it turns out that this book has much information that flows through your mind making you brainstorm all the possibilities, giving you sources to make connections of what? where? why?, the pandemic went all over the world killing between 20 million to 100 million, and the reason is not known or i haven't gotten that far yet.
Chapter 1:
- The influenza summary: where it started and what happened in 1918, there were many theories of how it flourished. this organism was said to be some type of war weapon from Germany but nobody knows. this influenza was known for its horrific numbers of deaths. As the title of the chapter says it explains The Plague Year. only a year a disease that had disappeared and reappeared stronger in that same year and completely vanished afterwards.
Chapter 2:

Hospitals were filled with the ill suffering from the pandemic

-This chapter goes back in time to the times of the first epidemics and the patterns they presented. it also explains some pathology towards the mysteries of early diseases such as cholera and other types of influenza and Black Death. it discusses the germ theory that was newly introduced in the 1918 period and how it fitted when cholera was stopped. it is very interesting to see how some diseases infected the whole world but it's also intriguing how the pathology of this Flu is so different from the other epidemic diseases that struck the world in the early ages of science.  unrelated to the book the video is a documentary about the 1918 flu to get more information opinions and facts