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I Am Still Here

September 2, 2010

I Am Still Here presents a unique picture of one woman s journey through the last 100 years. The book describes her efforts to overcome poverty during the Great Depression, survive the Spanish influenza as a child and many other difficult obstacles she has faced during her lifetime. In this book, Simon shares her secrets [...]

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Influenza: The Last Great Plague; An Unfinished Story

August 7, 2010
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The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 (Great Historic Disasters)

July 12, 2010

In late January 1918, Dr. Loren Miner, a country physician in rural Kansas, saw the first cases of an influenza of a violent nature. With a warning to the U.S. Public Health Service, his was the lone voice of alarm about the potential spread of this virulent new strain of a particularly deadly disease. With [...]

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Interview – John M. Barry – The Great Influenza

July 2, 2010

Interview with John M. Barry author of “The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History” recorded February 9, 2005 in Seattle

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Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the

June 30, 2010

When we think of plagues, we think of AIDS, Ebola, anthrax spores, and, of course, the Black Death. But in 1918 the Great Flu Epidemic killed an estimated 40 million people virtually overnight. If such a plague returned today, taking a comparable percentage of the U.S. population with it, 1.5 million Americans would die. In [...]

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The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in

June 12, 2010

At the height of WWI, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in [...]

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