A veteran ER doctor explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history and present-day analysis from the flu trojan, from the origins of the fantastic Flu that killed millions, to vexing queries such as: are we prepared for the next epidemic, in the event 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 relatively slight disease, it still kills over 30,000 people in america every year. Dr. Jeremy Brown, currently Director of Emergency about Influenza: The Hundred Season Hunt to Remedy the Deadliest Disease ever sold Care Research in the Country wide Institutes of Health, expounds in the flu’s lethal past to resolve the mysteries that could protect us from the next outbreak. In the “gripping…extensively researched” (Gail D’Onofrio MD, Yale College of Medication) Influenza, he discussions with leading epidemiologists, plan makers, and the researcher who 1st sequenced the genetic blocks of the initial 1918 virus to offer both a comprehensive background and a roadmap for understanding what’s to come.

Dr. Dark brown digs in to the discovery and resurrection of the flu trojan in the frozen victims of the 1918 epidemic, aswell as the bizarre remedies that once treated the disease, such as whiskey and blood-letting. Influenza also breaks down the existing dialogue surrounding the disease, detailing the controversy over vaccinations, antiviral medicines like Tamiflu, as well as the federal government government’s part in finding your way through 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 very most essential queries about the flu pathogen continue to confound also the leading specialists.

Influenza is a “compelling and accessible tale of one of the world’s most deadly diseases. It is timely and interesting, interesting and sobering” (David Gregory, CNN political analyst). It provides an enlightening and unnerving look at a shapeshifting lethal virus that is around long before people—and warns us that it may be a lot more years before we’re able to conquer it for good.