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In the midst of a World War, the true enemy was unseen. It came with a handshake or a breath and it left behind 60 million dead. Spanish Flu would devastate the world. Dr. Alan Keener is a young doctor fresh out of medical school who suspects that the Spanish Flu has reached his hometown of Cumberland, Md. He wants to take steps to prevent its spread, but he is met with resistance from old-school doctors who believe the flu's deadliness is overblown and eastily treated. They soon learn differently as the flu begins spreading, aided by a street preacher named Kolas. During the delirium caused with his own bout with the flu, he believes that he was anointed as the wrath of God and must spread the flu to bring God's retribution to the world. Alan and the other doctors race to find a way to treat the overwhelming number of sick and dying. They are already short staffed because of the war, and now nurses and doctors begin to fall ill and die, making the crisis worse. The fight becomes personal for Alan as his daughter and then his wife become ill with the flu. Can he find a treatment to keep them alive or will they become two of millions dying from Spanish Flu? No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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The disease hasn’t yet reached Columbia, Maryland, where Dr. Alan Keener, fresh out of medical school, treats a young mother named Sarah. She is feeling sick and feverish, classic flu symptoms, for which she is told to go home and rest. Sarah is found dead the next day, her lungs full of fluid.
The local authorities are reluctant to declare a health emergency over one death. They become convinced after the local death toll starts climbing, fast. All indoor gatherings are banned. Church services are moved outside. The local bars and taverns are forcibly closed. People start acting justifiably paranoid, afraid to leave their houses unless absolutely necessary. It becomes personal for Alan when his 5-year-old becomes one of the fatalities, and his wife almost joins her.
A traveling snake-oil salesman gets the flu, and during his flu-induced delirium, he believes that he is visited by an Angel of God. Mankind is being tested; he has been given the name of Kolas, and told to spread the disease as much as possible. Those who don’t die are the new Chosen of God. After nearly infecting Alan, Kolas is captured by the police, where he is "encouraged" to give up several samples of blood to be made into a vaccine. It helps to return things back to something approaching normal.
This is a very good, and very easy to read, novel about a famous, yet unknown, bit of 20th Century American history. While reading this book, in your mind, replace all mentions of "Spanish Flu" with "bird flu." Hmmm. . . ( )