THE INFLUENZA TIME BOMB....DIE JAGD NACH DEM VIRUS... THE EBOLA BY AIR VIRUS ...Feeling tired, achy, and congested? You'll hope not after reading science writer Gina Kolata's engrossing Flu, a fascinating look at the 1918 epidemic that wiped out around 40 million people in less than a year and afflicted more than one of every four Americans. This tragedy, just on the heels of World War I and far more deadly, so traumatized the survivors that few would talk about it afterward. Kolata reports on the scientific investigation of this bizarre outbreak, in particular the attempts to sequence the virus' DNA from tissue samples of victims. She also looks at the social and personal effects of the disease, from improved public health awareness to the loss of productivity. (The disease affected 20- to 40-year-olds disproportionately.) How could this disease, now almost trivial to healthy young people, have become so virulent? The answer is complex, invoking epidemiology, immunology, and even psychology, but Kolata cuts a swath through medical papers and statistical reports to tell a story of an out-of-control virus exploiting an exhausted world on the brink of transition into modern society. Through letters, interviews, and news reports, she pieces together a cautionary tale that captures the horror of a devastating illness. Research marches onward, but we're still at the mercy of something as simple as the flu.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 a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research and now revised to reflect the growing danger of the avian flu, The Great Influenza is ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, which provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. John M. Barry has written a new afterword for this edition that brings us up to speed on the terrible threat of the avian flu and suggest ways in which we might head off another flu pandemic.The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in MODERN History THE PLAGUE AND THE SMALL POX KILL MORE PEOPLE BUT THEY TAKE THEIR TIME... Influenza 1918: The Worst Epidemic in American History (The American Experience) by Lynette Iezzoni, David McCullough In America alone, some 25 million people fell ill and an estimated 675,000 died, all within a few tragic months.but we learn also from the same source how, in vengeance for an insult offered to his priest, the shafts of the Sun-god carried sickness into the Argive camp, destroying first the dogs and mules, and then thousands of warriors. While such beliefs pre vailed it was but natural that men should seek in every such emergency to propitiate the gods as the best and surest means of averting calamity. Sacrifice and supplication were therefore during long ages the only measures resorted to wherewith to arrest the progress of disease.

The focus, of course, was what differentiated the 1918 pandemic from those previous. 
NOVA ESTIRPE OU PELO MENOS NÃO A MESMA DA GRANDE PANDEMIA 1889/90
 
Why was it so deadly? POPULAÇÕES FAMINTAS SÓ NA EUROPA E NA ÁSIA 
EM ÁFRICA E NA AMÉRICA AINDA NÃO MORRIAM DE FOME LOGO PORQUÊ UNS CENTOS DE MILHARES DE AMERICANOS ARE GOING KAPPUT?
How did it spread? BY AIR E HAVIA POUCOS AVIÕES NA ALTURA....
How was it able to spread so quickly around the world? SECONDARY EFFECTS OF WORLD WAR ONE.... Who was vulnerable? 
Who wasn't? OR IT'S SIMPLE THE LEAST VULNERABLE ONES....
 Why? Why? Why?

Influenza: its history, nature, cause and treatment

 

1580 PANDEMIA DE GRIPE NA EUROPA 

 DOM SEBASTIÃO VINDO DO NEVOEIRO É UMA 

 DAS MUITAS VÍTIMAS JÁ DOM FILIPE II CAI DE CAMA 

DURANTE UNS MESES

VASCO DA GAMA APANHA UMA DOSE TAL QUE DÁ VOLTAS NA CAIXA DE FÓSFOROS ONDE O ENTERRARAM

HÁ UNS BONS ANOS....

É EM 1742 COM A GRANDE PANDEMIA 

QUE A GRIPE APANHA O SEU NOME 

EM ITÁLIA UN INFLUENZA DI FREDDO

PER INFLUÊNCIA DO ALFREDO ....FAZIA FRIO

E NEM HAVIA UM BARDARBUNGA NA BUNGA BUNGA

O SÉCULO XVIII VÊ 4 PANDEMIAS GRIPAIS 

MAS NEM TODOS ESCAPAM DA PRIMEIRA....

PARA VER A SEGUNDA EM 1758 OU A TERCEIRA 

1782/83 A DE 1799 É A ÚLTIMA DO SÉCULO