The great influenza the book the great influenza by john barry takes us back to arguably one of the greatest medical disasters in human history, the book focuses on the influenza pandemic which took place in the year 1918. The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and. The influenza pandemic of 1918 essay 1034 words bartleby. In the dying months of world war i, spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world, killing between 50 and 100 million people. Even dramatic series like downton abbey mention the event tragically. The fascinating, true story of the worlds deadliest disease. If such a plague returned today, taking a comparable percentage of the u.
There are a lot of tidbits about the influenza pandemic of 1918. Late february and early march marks the 100th anniversary of the spanish flu s appearance in the united states. The startling fact is that the combination of sources still exist today. Between the years 1918 and1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, more than half a million of them americans. But this book draws together information from a large number of sources and tells a more comprehensive story.