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By Lynette Iezzoni. 238 pp., illustrated. New York, TVBooks, 1999. $24.95. ISBN 1-57500-108-X.

By conservative estimates, the influenza pandemic of 1918 killed 21 million to 40 million people around the world, 675,000 of them in the United States. After only 17 months, the mortality was half that attributed to the 4-year span of the Black Death in 14th-century Europe and Asia. To many, "Spanish" influenza ranks as the deadliest plague to afflict human beings in recorded history. Its origins were obscure, its pathologic features unique, and its consequences, coming in the midst of the American entry into World War I, almost unendurable. In the panic that ensued, churches and schools were closed, the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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