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Purple Death
The Mysterious Flu of 1918
By Getz, David & McCarty, Peter
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-80505-751-5
- Publisher
- New York : Henry Holt, 2000.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2001
Gr 3-6 This medical history begins by describing how the influenza of 1918 spread across the world, infecting 2 billion people and killing 20 to 40 million. Once symptoms began, death could take place within three hours, mostly from lack of oxygen that caused victims to turn purple when their lungs filled with blood due to the virus. The second half of the book is devoted to the efforts of scientists, once the pandemic subsided,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
