![]() ![]() ![]() Scientists have recently rediscovered shards of the flu virus frozen in Alaska and preserved in scraps of tissue in a government warehouse. ![]() Eskimos living in remote outposts in the frozen tundra were sickened and killed by the flu in such numbers that entire villages were wiped out. As many American soldiers were killed by the 1918 flu as were killed in battle during World War I. Children were left orphaned and families were devastated. An estimated forty million people died as the epidemic raged. In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic felled the young and healthy virtually overnight. Veteran journalist Gina Kolata's Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It presents a fascinating look at true story of the world's deadliest disease. ![]()
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