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The
Wistar Institute’s 2004 Authors Series
Debuts...
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Thursday,
February 19, 2004,
7
p.m.
Award-Winning
Author
John M. Barry
Discusses His New Book
The
Great Influenza: The Epic
Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
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Free and Open to the Public (RSVP Requested)
• Dessert Reception to Follow
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many people view influenza—the flu—as an innocuous
disease, but the influenza pandemic of 1918 was the deadliest
disease in history. It killed more people in 20 weeks than
AIDS has killed in 20 years and decimated more people in a
year than the plagues of the Middle Ages felled in a century.
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John M. Barry, author of the award-winning Rising Tide:
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, probes this ghastly
outbreak and the heroic researchers who battled this strange
disease in his new book, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story
of the Deadliest Plague in History (Viking; February 2004).
The Joseph Fox Bookshop will provide
books for sale at the event.
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Call 215-898-3943, or e-mail wyce@wistar.org. |
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