The Nice Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in Historical past

#1 New York Occasions bestseller

“Barry will educate you nearly all the pieces you should learn about one of many deadliest outbreaks in human historical past.”—Invoice Gates

“Monumental… an authoritative and disturbing morality story.”—Chicago Tribune 

The strongest weapon in opposition to pandemic is the reality. Learn why within the definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. 


Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of analysis, 
The Nice Influenza gives us with a exact and sobering mannequin as we confront the epidemics looming on our personal horizon. As Barry concludes, “The ultimate lesson of 1918, a easy one but one most tough to execute, is that…these in authority should retain the general public’s belief. The best way to do this is to distort nothing, to place the very best face on nothing, to attempt to manipulate nobody. Lincoln stated that first, and greatest. A pacesetter should make no matter horror exists concrete. Solely then will folks have the ability to break it aside.”   

On the peak of World Struggle I, historical past’s most deadly influenza virus erupted in a military camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million folks worldwide. It killed extra folks in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, extra in a 12 months than the Black Dying killed in a century. However this was not the Center Ages, and 1918 marked the primary collision of science and epidemic illness.