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This 2.5-page paper is a book review of John M Barry's book, "The Great Influenza: The Epic of the Deadliest Plague in History." There are 3 sources cited.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. The Great Influenza Research Compiled for The
Paper Store, Inc. by P. Giltman 9/2010 Please Written in 2004, historian John M. Barrys The Great Influenza: The
Epic of the Deadliest Plague in History, the author takes the reader back to 1918 when a plague swept across the world taking the lives of nearly 100 million people.
Many thought this was the Black Death revisited from the Middle Ages, but this was no pandemic of the bubonic plague. It was influenza (the flu) that killed all of
these people. Barry is able to reveal the chaos that was occurring in some of Americas most populous cities where hundreds if not thousands of dead bodies were found on
the street and piled on top of each other in mass graves. Barry also examines the political and economic landscape of the early 1900s and how World War I under
former President Woodrow Wilson helped create conditions that enabled the influenza virus to thrive. For example, Barry demonstrates the conditions at some of the worlds congested and jam-packed military camps
that allowed the highly contagious virus to spread to other facilities and other soldiers. However, Wilson and his administration were inundated with a war against Germany that they failed to
take any action and chose to ignore the problem until it reached monumental proportions. In fact, the disease is said to have killed more people in five months than the
AIDS virus killed in 20 years (Book Browse, 2010). Barry explains that there were not enough medical personnel to not only treat the war victims but the influenza victims as
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