The Great Influenza by John M. Barry6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Although the origin site for the pandemic has been widely debated, Barry follows the research findings of epidemiologist Edwin O. The extensiveness of this declaration can be supported through the following statements: "the greatest medical holocaust in history" and "the pandemic ranks with the plague of Justinian and the Black Death as one of the three most destructive human epidemics". ![]() The 1918 influenza pandemic has been declared, according to Barry's text, as the 'deadliest plague in history'. ![]() Army training camp Camp Funston, Kansas, USA, and around the world through troop movements during World War I. The book describes how the flu started in Haskell County, Kansas, USA, and spread to the U.S. Barry focuses on what was occurring in the United States at the time and attempts to place it against the background of American history and within the context of the history of medicine. Barry that examines the Spanish flu, a 1918-1920 flu pandemic and one of the worst pandemics in history. ![]() The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (originally subtitled The Epic Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History) is a 2004 nonfiction book by John M. ![]()
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