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August 16, 2007

Resources on the Influenza Pandemic of 1918

>>Did you know that the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 killed more people than World War I? Find out more...

Web Resources

Watch me first!>> The 1918 Flu, New York Times Multimedia Website

The Deadly Virus, a website from the US National Archives

1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics, from the Center for Disease Control

1918 Influenza Pandemic, Nature journal

Images from the 1918 Flu Pandemic, National Museum of Health and Medicine


Primary Resources
Advertisement for medicine to cure THE GRIP, New York Times

Spanish Influenza is Raging in the German Army, July 27, 1918, New York Times

Germans with Fever Drop in Tracks, July 9, 1918, New York Times

Spanish Influenza Continues Ravages, September 18, 1918, Altanta Constitution

Health Department Announcement Gives Instructions in Ways to Avoid the Infection, September 27, 1918, New York Times

72,327 GRIPPE Cases in U.S. Army Camps, October 1, 1918, Atlanta Constitution

3,000,000 People Died of Influenza, December 20, 1918, New York Times

Scientists Recreate 1918 Flu and See Parallels to Bird Flu, January 18, 2007, New York Times


Books in the UT Libraries
Britain and the 1918-19 influenza pandemic : a dark epilogue / Niall Johnson.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.6.G7 J64 2006

The great influenza : the epic story of the deadliest plague in history / John M. Barry.
Ag-Vet. Med Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .B37 2005

Fever of war : the influenza epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I / Carol R. Byerly.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .B946 2005

The great influenza : the epic story of the deadliest plague in history / John M. Barry.
Hodges Library / Culture Corner 1st Floor: RC150.4 .B37 2004

America's forgotten pandemic : the influenza of 1918 / Alfred W. Crosby.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.I6 C76 2003

Hunting the 1918 flu : one scientist's search for a killer virus / Kirsty Duncan.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.6 .N8 D86 2003


The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19 [electronic resource] : new perspectives / edited by Howard Phillips and David Killingray.

The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19 : new perspectives / edited by Howard Phillips and David Killingray.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .S66 2003

The devil's flu : the world's deadliest influenza epidemic and the scientific hunt for the virus that caused it / Pete Davies.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.I6 D38 2000

Influenza 1918 : the worst epidemic in American history / Lynette Iezzoni ; foreword by David McCullough.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .I39 1999

Flu : the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it / Gina Kolata.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .K64 1999

Pandemic influenza, 1700-1900 : a study in historical epidemiology / K. David Patterson.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .P38 1986


History, science, and politics : influenza in America, 1918-1976 / June E. Osborn, editor.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.I6 H57

Epidemic and peace, 1918 / Alfred W. Crosby, Jr.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.1 .C76

The plague of the Spanish lady : the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 / Richard Collier.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC150.4 .C64 1974

Epidemic respiratory disease.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RC734 .O6

Posted by Donna Braquet at August 16, 2007 02:22 PM