Vol. 2 contains reproductions of original title pages of ten of the essays. Bibliographical footnotes.

In 1900, for every 1,000 babies born in the United States, 100 would die before their first birthday, often due to infectious diseases. Today, vaccines exist fo

Public health officials and organizations around the world remain on high alert because of increasing concerns about the prospect of an influenza pandemic, whic

Veteran journalist Gina Kolata's Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It presents a fascinating look