Book ID: CBB000630024

Hunting the 1918 Flu: One Scientist's Search for a Killer Virus (2003)

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Duncan, Kirsty (Author)


University of Toronto Press


Publication Date: 2003
Physical Details: xvi + 297 pp.; ill; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Autobiographical account of Canadian scientist's efforts to find, isolate, and sequence RNA from the virus.


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Review Rasmussen, Anne (2005) Review of "Hunting the 1918 Flu: One Scientist's Search for a Killer Virus". Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine (p. 114). unapi

Review McKenna, Maryn (2005) Review of "Hunting the 1918 Flu: One Scientist's Search for a Killer Virus". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 587). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Dehner, George
Lukáš Novotný
Valérie Tóthová
Věra Hellerová
Waka Hirokawa
Marian, Meaghan Jeannine
Concepts
Influenza
Public health
Research
Medicine
Epidemiology
Pandemics
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
Places
Hong Kong
United States
Uganda
Ukraine
Czechoslovakia
Japan
Institutions
Ireland. Local Government Board
World Health Organization (WHO)
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