The Great Influenza Condition:Good The Proverbs of Alfred

The Proverbs of Alfred

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Written in the mid-1950s and presented here as a facsimile of the original manuscript

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The Great Influenza Condition:Good The Proverbs of AlfredIn the winter of 1918, at the height of WWI, historys 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 weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic