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Pale rider by Laura Spinney · Booklabria

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HistoryEpidemics

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First published: 2017
Language: English
Editions: 8

Synopsis

With a death toll between fifty and one hundred million people across the globe, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. Drawing on the latest research in history, virology, epidemiology, psychology, and economics, Laura Spinney recounts the story of this overlooked pandemic.

Subjects: History
Epidemics
Epidemiology
Communicable diseases
History, modern, 20th century
Influenza
Time: 20th Century

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