Articles about the Spanish Flu
Jan. 16th, 2019 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
If you're interested in the Spanish Flu, here are some articles & books I've found valuable. Gina Kolata's book, or John M. Barry's article, are pretty good starting points.
John M. Barry. "How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America". Smithsonian magazine, November 2017.
Carol Byerly. Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U. S. Army during World War I, NYU Press, 2005.
Carol Byerly. "The U.S. Military and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919". Public Health Reports vol. 125 Suppl 3, Suppl 3 (2010): 82-91.
Gina Kolata. Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It. Touchstone, 2001.
David M. Morens, Anthony S. Fauci. "The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Insights for the 21st Century", The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 195, Issue 7, 1 April 2007: 1018–1028.
Jeffrey Taubenberger and David M Morens. "1918 Influenza: the mother of all pandemics". Emerging Infectious Diseases vol. 12,1 (2006): 15-22.
Vikki Valentine. "Origins of the 1918 Pandemic: The Case for France". NPR.org, 20 February 2006.
Peter C. Wever and Leo van Bergen. "Death from 1918 pandemic influenza during the First World War: a perspective from personal and anecdotal evidence". Influenza and other respiratory viruses, vol. 8,5 (2014): 538-46.
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