Killer Flu: The World on the Brink of a Pandemic

by Jim Poling Sr.

Did you know that the pandemic of 1918-19 killed at least four times as many people as World War I in one-quarter of the time? Or that it is estimated between 2 and 7.4 million people will die worldwide in the next pandemic, and some estimates put the death toll as high as 100 million? Did you know that we are overdue for the next pandemic?

192 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2005

About the author

Jim Poling Sr. is a career writer whose material has appeared in magazines such as Readers' Digest, Cottage Life magazine and newspapers around the world. He is the author of 10 books, including Lights in Dark Forests (short stories) and Waking Nanabijou: Uncovering a Secret Past, And Smoke Signals: The Native Takeback of the North American Tobacco Industry. His latest book is Bears in the Bird Feeders, a memoir of cottaging.

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[Barbaramarblepoling]

Informative and interesting