Title: Influenza Pdf The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History
On the 100th anniversary of the devastating pandemic of 1918, Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor, explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history of the flu virus, from the origins of the Great Flu that killed millions, to vexing questions such as: are we prepared for the next epidemic, should you get a flu shot, and how close are we to finding a cure?
While influenza is now often thought of as a common and mild disease, it still kills over 30,000 people in the US each year. Dr. Jeremy Brown, currently director of Emergency Care Research at the National Institutes of Health, expounds on the flu's deadly past to solve the mysteries that could protect us from the next outbreak. In Influenza, he talks with leading epidemiologists, policy makers, and the researcher who first sequenced the genetic building blocks of the original 1918 virus to offer both a comprehensive history and a roadmap for understanding what's to come.
Dr. Brown digs into the discovery and resurrection of the flu virus in the frozen victims of the 1918 epidemic, as well as the bizarre remedies that once treated the disease, such as whiskey and blood-letting. Influenza also breaks down the current dialogue surrounding the disease, explaining the controversy over vaccinations, antiviral drugs like Tamiflu, and the federal government's role in preparing for pandemic outbreaks. Though 100 years of advancement in medical research and technology have passed since the 1918 disaster, Dr. Brown warns that many of the most vital questions about the flu virus continue to confound even the leading experts.
Influenza is an enlightening and unnerving look at a shapeshifting deadly virus that has been around long before people - and warns us that it may be many more years before we are able to conquer it for good.
All about Influenza. The author is a gifted writer and one who has researched his subject. As a physician, I had many questions answered. The author documents that Vaccines promoted to prevent the Flu have potential down sides and questionable value. The commercial interest of the phamaceutical companies market the notion that vaccines and anti viral agents are useful . I had no idea that our government has warehouses storing multibillion dollar inventories of vaccines , antiviral agents, antibiotics and other paraphenalia available in the event of a Flu panendemic.This is the go to book for all interested in learning practicable aspects of Influenza.The history of Influenza. Factual and historical. Any one interested in medicine should read this.Engaging, intelligent, easy to read - and VERY informative Jeremy Brown has written an intelligent, engaging and very well-written book about an issue that is both historic and (alarmingly) contemporary. He has a very easy writing style, with occasional irreverently humorous comments. (Little has changed since I taught him in HIgh School some 40 years ago.... the cleverest student I ever had.). Most of all, he has a great curiosity about the world, which shows through clearly in this book, and - a rare, precious quality for a writer - communicates itself to the reader, who is drawn into the topic. If you enjoy medical / scientific/ sociological ‘whodunnits’, you will love this book - a great read, and a great gift!It should be mentioned that he is an amazingly diverse polymath, who glides from arcane subject (Emergency Medicine, Medieval science, the history of ideas, obscure rabbinic texts) to arcane subject. Keep writing, please - the best is yet to come!
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