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    The Spanish Flu Epidemic and Its Influence on History
    The Spanish Flu Epidemic and Its Influence on History
    The Spanish Flu Epidemic and Its Influence on History
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    The Spanish Flu Epidemic and Its Influence on History

    By Jaime Breitnauer

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    A look at the 1918 influenza pandemic from its outbreak to its effects on the global population and its legacy.

    On the second Monday of March, 1918, the world changed forever. What seemed like a harmless cold morphed into a global pandemic that would wipe out as many as a hundred-million people—ten times as many as the Great War. German troops faltered, lending the allies the winning advantage, and India turned its sights to independence while South Africa turned to God. In Western Samoa, a quarter of the population died; in some parts of Alaska, whole villages were wiped out. Civil unrest sparked by influenza shaped nations and heralded a new era of public health where people were no longer blamed for contracting disease. Using real case histories, we take a journey through the world in 1918, and look at the impact of Spanish flu on populations from America to France and the Arctic, and at the scientific legacy this deadly virus has left behind.

    “Breitnauer puts the whole thing into perspective with a fascinating account of the

    origin and extent of the outbreak, at a time when people were returning from the conflict expecting a brave new world and instead confronting one of the deadliest epidemics ever to hit mankind.” —Books Monthly (UK)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateFeb 19, 2020
    ISBN9781526745187

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      A great overview of the 1918-1920 H1N1 pandemic and its effects.The author begins each chapter with a personal story of someone who was deeply affected by H1N1. She explores the likely antecedents of the pandemic in France in 1916 and parts of China in 1917 and then fully focuses on the spread of the virus throughout America and then to Europe in a spring and fall wave in 1918 thanks to significant troop movements in World War I, and then how the virus continued to spread throughout Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. She describes areas terribly affected and others not as affected and the reasons why: previous exposure, better quarantine standards, better public health awareness, etc. She does quite well at showing the long-term historical effects of H1N1: how Sykes of the Sykes-Picot treaty was having second doubts, but died before any changes were made, leading to all kinds of "what if" questions about the Middle East over the past century; and Wilson's debilitation in the wake of H1N1 and the "what if" questions about how the Treaty of Versailles would have looked had Wilson been more engaged at the end, and what that would have meant for Europe over the next two decades. Above all she speaks of how the H1N1 pandemic did not seem to leave much trace in the historical record even though the effects on individuals and families must have been enormous: physical trauma was manifest in children born during the pandemic throughout their lives; the mental and emotional trauma of survival while losing parents and other loved ones must have been immense; and few talked about it in the wake of the calamity of World War I. And yet she also speaks of how the H1N1 pandemic led many countries to better prioritize public health and led to the creation of many impressive healthcare systems which work to the benefit of many to this day.Such also explains why the documentation of the 1918-1920 H1N1 pandemic seems so sparse: because it is sparse.Barry's magnum opus on 1918-1920 H1N1 goes into much greater depth in terms of the science and the scientists grappling with pandemic in America, but this book does much better at telling stories of those actually affected by H1N1 and provides more global testimony to the pandemic. Do not think that just because you've read Barry you've got the whole picture; I recommend reading this work as well. On the whole, this work is much better at keeping focused on the 1918-1920 H1N1 pandemic and telling its important story for the modern age.**--galley received as part of early review program

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