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ISBN: 0374157065 (alk. paper) : $25.00 Personal Author: Kolata, Gina Bari, 1948- Title: Flu : the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it / Gina Kolata. Edition: 1st ed. Publication Information: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Physical Description: xi, 330 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. Contents: Ch. 1. The plague year -- Ch. 2. A history of disease and death -- Ch. 3. From sailors to swine -- Ch. 4. A Swedish adventurer -- Ch. 5. Swine flu -- Ch. 6. A litigation nightmare -- Ch. 7. John Dalton's eyeballs -- Ch. 8. An incident in Hong Kong -- Ch. 9. From Alaska to Norway -- Ch. 10. Mysteries and hypotheses. Subject Term: Influenza History 20th century.

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