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Article: `The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- October 21, 2004
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Byline: Ed Voves
``The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History'' by John M. Barry; Viking ($29.95)
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On Sept. 18, 1918, Philadelphia's public health director, Dr. Wilmer Krusen, conferred with Lt. Commander R.W. Plummer, chief health officer of the Navy in the city; Paul A. Lewis, a highly regarded medical researcher for the University of Pennsylvania; and several other officials. The topic was the outbreak of Spanish influenza in the city a week earlier. The disease had sickened hundreds of thousands in Europe during the spring of 1918 and had emerged in an even more virulent form at a military base near Boston. ...