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Book synopsis

Health crises such as the SARS epidemic and H1N1 have rekindled interest in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which swept the globe after the First World War and killed approximately fifty million people. Epidemic Encounters examines the pandemic in Canada, where one-third of the population took ill and fifty-five thousand people died.

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Book category Books in English Medicine Clinical & internal medicine Diseases & disorders

• Full title: Epidemic Encounters
• Subtitle: Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-20
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780774822121
• ISBN: 9780774822121
• ID: 06328590
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Weight: 560 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. May 2012

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