June 18, 2020
At the height of World War I, 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.
Author's website. Contains many good links.
.http://www.johnmbarry.com/
March 7, 2020 NY Times book review.
http://www.johnmbarry.com/