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HTML:From National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin comes a fascinating look at the history and science of the deadly 1918 flu pandemicâ??and its chilling and timely resemblance to the worldwide coronavirus outbreak. In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of 1918, the second wave struck as a highly contagious and lethal epidemic and within weeks exploded into a pandemic, an illness that travels rapidly from one continent to another. It would impact the course of the war, and kill many millions more soldiers than warfare itself. Of all diseases, the 1918 flu was by far the worst that has ever afflicted humankind; not even the Black Death of the Middle Ages comes close in terms of the number of lives it took. No war, no natural disaster, no famine has claimed so many. In the space of eighteen months in 1918-1919, about 500 million peopleâ??one-third of the global population at the timeâ??came down with influenza. The exact total of lives lost will never be known, but the best estimate is between 50 and 100 million. In this powerful book, filled with black and white photographs, nonfiction master Albert Marrin examines the history, science, and impact of this great scourgeâ??and the possibility for another worldwide pandemic today. A Chicago Public Library Best Book of th… (mais)
One hundred years after the "Spanish flu" (it started in Kansas) swept across the world, this book provides the history and science behind that particular strain of influenza. Marrin also covers other plagues and pandemics throughout history, and the medical responses to them; the science of bacteria and viruses, and how viruses "mix" and mutate into lethal or less lethal strains; and the particular twin effects of influenza and trench warfare.
Square format, glossy pages, with two columns of text on each page, and a relevant photograph, chart, diagram, illustration, or reproduction on nearly every double page spread.
Back matter includes notes by chapter, index.
Horrifying and poignant, given the current circumstances in 2020.
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The 1918 pandemic "killed more people in less time than any other disease before or since." (WHO report in 1994, p. 5)
A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) by Daniel Defoe (p. 20)
[cartoon from an anti-vaccination publication, December 1894] (p. 30)
Scientific medicine's best arguments were beyond dispute: it saved lives and alleviated suffering. By 1900, for the first time since cities came into existence, European and American cities recorded more births than deaths. [the "laying out room" became "the living room" (p. 31)
Lice carried "trench fever"...[and] typhus. (37)
Grown fat from feasting on the dead, a single pair [of rats] could produce 880 babies a year. (38)
Bacteria cause diseases such as bubonic plague, typhoid fever, typhus, tuberculosis, cholera, diphtheria, and whooping cough....Viruses...have caused...measles, mumps, polio, chicken pox, smallpox, hepatitis, rabies, Ebola, AIDS, and influenza. (48-49)
Viruses seem to exist for one purpose only: to reproduce. (49)
This is the principle of vaccination: memory cells recognize past intruders, jolting the immune system into action without causing a full-blown infection. (51)
All flu viruses that make humans sick get their start in birds. (51)
Influenza can kill in two ways...bacterial pneumonia [and] viral pneumonia...In 1918, the mutated Type A H1N1 influenza virus stuck in ways physicians had never seen before or thought possible. (66)
In the US, H1N1 killed at least 675,000 civilians - more than the nation's total military deaths in WWI, WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War combined. (73)
On October 4, 1918, [US Surgeon General Rupert Blue] recommended closing all public gathering places where the disease might spread. Note: recommended, not ordered. Blue's lack of action typified poor leadership in high places; indeed, no single official took charge of the anti-flu effort. Throughout the pandemic, the nation lacked a uniform policy about gathering places, and there was no central authority with the power to make and enforce rules that everyone had to obey. Each community acted on its own...(89-89)
Until the 1930s, the US had no laws to regulate patent medicines...Makers...did not have to prove their products safe and effective, or list ingredients o the label, or have medical or scientific training. (97)
Katherine Anne Porter, Pale Horse, Pale Rider (102)
...medical personnel...had orders to separate flu cases from the wounded. But more often than not, this wasn't feasible...Thus, influenza killed wounded men who might otherwise have lived if they had been separated from their infected comrades and treated in time. (120)
[Following the cease-fire orders after the armistice was signed] Many soldiers, on both sides, wanted the "honor" of firing the last shot of the war....more than 10,000 men, including 3,000 Americans, were killed or wounded for nothing. (129-130)
When the next pandemic comes...perhaps we will be ready to meet it. If we are not, the outcome will be very, very, very dreadful. (final sentence, 165) ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua lÃngua.
This may serve to describe the dreadful condition of that day, though it is impossible to say anything that is able to give a true idea of it to those who did not see it, other than this, that it was indeed very, very, very dreadful and no such tongue can express.
-- Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, 1722
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua lÃngua.
Monday, March 11, 1918. Fort Riley, north-central Kansas. On a vast wind-swept plain covering more than 20,000 acres, scores of barracks, staff buildings, warehouses, repair shops, stables, and tent cities dotted the ground. (Prologue)
VISITORS FROM THE DEEP PAST For untold generations, before the invention of written history, people lived in small family groups numbering, at most, a few dozen members.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua lÃngua.
When the next pandemic comes, as it surely will someday, perhaps we will be ready to meet it. If we are not, the outcome will be very, very, very dreadful.
Health & Fitness.
History.
Science.
Young Adult Nonfiction.
HTML:From National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin comes a fascinating look at the history and science of the deadly 1918 flu pandemicâ??and its chilling and timely resemblance to the worldwide coronavirus outbreak. In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of 1918, the second wave struck as a highly contagious and lethal epidemic and within weeks exploded into a pandemic, an illness that travels rapidly from one continent to another. It would impact the course of the war, and kill many millions more soldiers than warfare itself. Of all diseases, the 1918 flu was by far the worst that has ever afflicted humankind; not even the Black Death of the Middle Ages comes close in terms of the number of lives it took. No war, no natural disaster, no famine has claimed so many. In the space of eighteen months in 1918-1919, about 500 million peopleâ??one-third of the global population at the timeâ??came down with influenza. The exact total of lives lost will never be known, but the best estimate is between 50 and 100 million. In this powerful book, filled with black and white photographs, nonfiction master Albert Marrin examines the history, science, and impact of this great scourgeâ??and the possibility for another worldwide pandemic today. A Chicago Public Library Best Book of th
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Square format, glossy pages, with two columns of text on each page, and a relevant photograph, chart, diagram, illustration, or reproduction on nearly every double page spread.
Back matter includes notes by chapter, index.
Horrifying and poignant, given the current circumstances in 2020.
Quotes/Notes
The 1918 pandemic "killed more people in less time than any other disease before or since." (WHO report in 1994, p. 5)
A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) by Daniel Defoe (p. 20)
[cartoon from an anti-vaccination publication, December 1894] (p. 30)
Scientific medicine's best arguments were beyond dispute: it saved lives and alleviated suffering. By 1900, for the first time since cities came into existence, European and American cities recorded more births than deaths. [the "laying out room" became "the living room" (p. 31)
Lice carried "trench fever"...[and] typhus. (37)
Grown fat from feasting on the dead, a single pair [of rats] could produce 880 babies a year. (38)
Bacteria cause diseases such as bubonic plague, typhoid fever, typhus, tuberculosis, cholera, diphtheria, and whooping cough....Viruses...have caused...measles, mumps, polio, chicken pox, smallpox, hepatitis, rabies, Ebola, AIDS, and influenza. (48-49)
Viruses seem to exist for one purpose only: to reproduce. (49)
This is the principle of vaccination: memory cells recognize past intruders, jolting the immune system into action without causing a full-blown infection. (51)
All flu viruses that make humans sick get their start in birds. (51)
Influenza can kill in two ways...bacterial pneumonia [and] viral pneumonia...In 1918, the mutated Type A H1N1 influenza virus stuck in ways physicians had never seen before or thought possible. (66)
In the US, H1N1 killed at least 675,000 civilians - more than the nation's total military deaths in WWI, WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War combined. (73)
On October 4, 1918, [US Surgeon General Rupert Blue] recommended closing all public gathering places where the disease might spread. Note: recommended, not ordered. Blue's lack of action typified poor leadership in high places; indeed, no single official took charge of the anti-flu effort. Throughout the pandemic, the nation lacked a uniform policy about gathering places, and there was no central authority with the power to make and enforce rules that everyone had to obey. Each community acted on its own...(89-89)
Until the 1930s, the US had no laws to regulate patent medicines...Makers...did not have to prove their products safe and effective, or list ingredients o the label, or have medical or scientific training. (97)
Katherine Anne Porter, Pale Horse, Pale Rider (102)
...medical personnel...had orders to separate flu cases from the wounded. But more often than not, this wasn't feasible...Thus, influenza killed wounded men who might otherwise have lived if they had been separated from their infected comrades and treated in time. (120)
[Following the cease-fire orders after the armistice was signed] Many soldiers, on both sides, wanted the "honor" of firing the last shot of the war....more than 10,000 men, including 3,000 Americans, were killed or wounded for nothing. (129-130)
When the next pandemic comes...perhaps we will be ready to meet it. If we are not, the outcome will be very, very, very dreadful. (final sentence, 165) ( )