The 1889-1890 Flu Pandemic: The History of the 19th Century's Last Major Global Outbreak

*Includes pictures
*Includes a bibliography for further reading
*Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts
Plague and pestilence have both fascinated and terrified humanity from the very beginning. Societies and individuals have struggled to make sense of them, and more importantly they've often struggled to avoid them. Before the scientific age, people had no knowledge of the microbiological agents - unseen bacteria and viruses - which afflicted them, and thus the maladies were often ascribe...