FLU: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918

FLU
The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
by Gina Kolata

Earlier I had read the Great Influenza by John M Barry which discussed the state of medicine in the United States at the turn of the last century and the spread of the influenza pandemic of 1918 and who was affected the heaviest.

The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic... delves into the history of various pandemics and the search for whatever unique cause of the flu of 1918. That is pertinent to today because it was also a swine flu. The theory is that this particular swine flu started off as an avian flu and then infected hogs in middle America and then went out as the virulent form that killed so many young people throughout the world. The search is fascinating.