War on Influenza 1918

History, Causes and Treatment of the World's Most Lethal Pandemic

De: War History Journals

Narrado por: Jerry McDaniel

Influenza should scare you.

Listen to this detailed and chilling account of the influenza outbreak of 1918. A terrifying virus that stretched across the globe. Even now, a century after the great flu of 1918, which left an estimated 50 to 100 million people dead worldwide, there's still no cure.

This audiobook examines influenza from all sorts of angles - history, diagnosis and treatment, economics and epidemiology‚ healthcare policy, and prevention. It gives insights on pandemics and provides the much-needed knowledge to evaluate the truthfulness of the proliferating, often contradicting information about the present pandemic.

While influenza is now often thought of as a common but mild disease, it still kills more than 30,000 people in the United States each year. What can we learn from the original 1918 virus that will protect us from the next outbreak?

War on Influenza 1918: History, Causes and Treatment of the World's Most Lethal Pandemic is part-science, part-history, and part-expert advice. This is precisely the book you want to listen to when you’re tucked in bed feeling feverish.

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Very Informing

I received this audiobook for free in exchange for my review. War on Influenza was very interesting and informative. As we are in a pandemic right now, I thought this was something I wanted to learn about. I think everyone who is concerned about this pandemic should listen to this audiobook...Jerry McDaniel did a good job of narrating this.

Good scientific account of Influenza

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

I thought this would be more of a history of influenza but it was more about the history of its pathology. It was very detailed and a very good book overall. The narrator was good and had great pacing and control. Very well done overall

Timely Review of an Important Historical Moment

For anyone who is really just wanting to know more about pandemics and what happened in the past that it might inform the future, this is a great opportunity. It felt like sitting down with an expert and simply asking, "have we dealt with something like this before." The narrator is engaging and the information is well presented and easy to understand.

Medical History of the fight to beat the 1918 Flu

This audiobook may be short (3.5 hours), but it is crammed full of information. If you are looking for an academic history of the 1918 Flu Pandemic this is the book for you. War on Influenza is perfect for physicians on the front lines of the COVID-19 virus. Because I am a layman, this book was over-my-head. I would have preferred a more anecdotal style. However, this is an excellent book if you are looking for a detailed account of what physicians tried in 1918.

More for one with a little medical background

This was so good. I’m a Medical Lab Technologist and have worked in microbiology a lot so I understood this well. It’s very educational in the history of the flu pandemic and also what takes place in the body and the body’s reaction to it. Sometimes our body can cause more harm to us with its defense mechanism for fighting foreign substances. This explains a lot of that. It’s broken down into greatly organized chapters and even has titles for them. It would be the perfect textbook like listen or read for any medical student. Learning the history of any medical events is of utmost importance if we are to learn and grow in preventing future outbreaks. I especially liked the short part at the end about the comparison with the current covid pandemic. It’s scary to learn the statistics.

My only beef with this and why I only gave four stars, at times it was confusing because it seemed the terms bacteria and virus were interchangeable in talk of the flu pandemic. Was it the influenza B, as in the virus that causes gastrointestinal problems or the Haemophilus influenzae B, the bacteria? I’m thinking it switched from one to the other but at some point, my mind wondered some because I listened on the way home from my hour drive from work and there was a lot on my mind plus I had worked all night. So some of it was my fault. I just don’t want the layman to be confusing viruses with bacteria. It wasn’t a big deal because it was written well and that part is probably just me because there was so much information and I really got into it. I’ve never read or listened to anything written this well. It was amazing.

The narrator was amazing. Some words were pronounced wrong but I didn’t feel it was that big a deal. The voice was great and not monotone at all. I highly recommend this to anyone, even history buffs, not just medical people.