Very, very, very dreadful: : the influenza pandemic of 1918

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Label

Very, very, very dreadful: : the influenza pandemic of 1918

Title remainder

the influenza pandemic of 1918

Statement of responsibility

Albert Marrin

Title variation

Influenza pandemic of nineteen-eighteen

Creator

• true Unknown Label
• Marrin, Albert,

Author

• Marrin, Albert,

Subject

• Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919
• trueEpidemics
• trueDeath
• truePublic health
• trueInfluenza Epidemic, 1918-1919
• trueHistory books -- Natural disasters and tragedies
• trueScience -- Health and medicine | Diseases and illnesses
• trueWorld War I
• trueDiseases
• Influenza -- History -- Juvenile literature
• trueNarrative nonfiction for kids and teens
• Epidemics -- Juvenile literature

Genre

• Juvenile literature
• trueHistory books
• trueNarrative nonfiction for kids and teens
• trueScience

Language

eng

Summary

In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of 1918, the second wave struck as a highly contagious and lethal epidemic and within weeks exploded into a pandemic, an illness that travels rapidly from one continent to another. It would impact the course of the war, and kill many millions more soldiers than warfare itself. Of all diseases, the 1918 flu was by far the worst that has ever afflicted humankind; not even the Black Death of the Middle Ages comes close in terms of the number of lives it took. No war, no natural disaster, no famine has claimed so many. In the space of eighteen months in 1918-1919, about 500 million people--one-third of the global population at the time--came down with influenza. The exact total of lives lost will never be known, but the best estimate is between 50 and 100 million. In this powerful book, filled with black and white photographs, nonfiction master Albert Marrin examines the history, science, and impact of this great scourge--and the possibility for another worldwide pandemic today

Writing style

• trueCompelling
• trueComprehensive

Cataloging source

BT

Dewey number

616.518

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• charts
• photographs

Index

index present

Intended audience

1040L

Intended audience source

Lexile

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

1040

Literary form

non fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 7
• 12

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adolescent