Flu Patrol Additional Information

Published by Twenty-First Century Books/Millbrook Press, 1994.

You may not know it, but you have viruses inside your body right now. You’re not usually aware of these invisible invaders until they cause problems. How do viruses cause disease? How can your body fight against them? How do vaccines prevent some diseases such as smallpox? And what is the connection between AIDS and viruses? With color photographs and drawings, this book explains how viruses work and how they change. Discussions of colds, flu, smallpox, rabies, and polio are included. The importance of viruses in food and plants is also discussed.

Published by Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish, 2005.

This book begins by pointing to three remarkable things about the influenza pandemic of 1918: that it killed between 20 million and 40 million people around the world in a year, that it is hardly mentioned anywhere, and that this disease will likely reappear someday. You’ll learn about the waves and history of the outbreaks, the ways in which health workers tried to control it, and the methods in which later researchers have studied the epidemic. A final chapter is devoted to the possibilities of a viral epidemic today.

Published by Chelsea House, 2000.

The flu is never fun, but you probably don’t think of it as a deadly disease. In 1918, though, it killed over 40 million people. Usually the flu is not so dangerous, but since it mutates, or changes, very quickly, scientists and doctors can never be sure that next year’s flu might not turn out to be a killer. This book tells the history of pandemics (worldwide disease outbreaks) as well as the scientific detective work that goes into preventing them.