Volume 47, Number 2 · February 10, 2000
The Flu of Flus
By William H. McNeill
Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It
by Gina Kolata
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 330 pp., $25.00
'The 1918 influenza epidemic is one of history's great conundrums,' Gina Kolata writes in introducing the fascinating medical and scientific stories gathered together in her new book. As the subtitle explains, they are about the flu of 1918, and about recent efforts 'to resurrect the virus's genetic code,' which she believes may soon provide
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