John Barry, Author: Interview- 02/15/2005

Author of The Great Influenza

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John Barry, Author: Interview- 02/15/2005

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An Audio interview with John Barry.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with John Barry. [runtime: 00:21:11, 9.7 mb, recorded 2005-02-15]

http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail422.html

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Author Brings "The Great Influenza" to the School

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Author Brings "The Great Influenza" to the School

Even though it killed at least 40 million people in less than a year, the 1918 influenza pandemic's most alarming feature may have been that it nearly extinguished the basic humanitarian impulses that bind civil society together.


So says John Barry, author of The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (Viking 2004). Barry was at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health March 2 to talk about history's most calamitous infectious disease pandemic, which killed more people in 24 weeks during 1918—1919 than AIDS has in 24 years.
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