5/20/2023 0 Comments Pale Rider by Laura SpinneyShe shows how the pandemic was shaped by the interaction of a virus and the humans it encountered and how this devastating natural experiment put both the ingenuity and the vulnerability of humans to the test. In Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I. With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. Pale Rider is not just an excavation but a reimagining of the past Guardian Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth centurys greatest killer – and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic.īoth a saga of tragedies and a detective story.
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