After speaking at the Club meeting on October 7, Judy Linsley sent a list of four books that provide more information than she could present about the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic and polio epidemic. If you would like to investigate more thoroughly, pick up one of these books at the library or bookstore. John Barry. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History, Penguin Books, 2005.
Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World, Hachette Book Group, 2017.
Maryn McKenna, “The Virus Hunt,” Smithsonian, July-August 2020.
Heather Green Wooten, The Polio Years in Texas: Battling a Terrifying Unknown, Texas A&M Press, 2009.
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