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    Gina Gets The Flu ‘As World War I came to a:close in 1918, an influenza epidemic swept the globe, killing at least 20 million people in a matter of months. (WWI combat deaths numbered only 9 million.) A quarter of the American population was infected, and Philadelphia in particular was hard hit, with its naval shipyard and frequent war bond rallies putting hun- dreds of thousands in contact with the virus. Influenza killed 11,000 Philadelphians in October 1918; on Oct. 10 alone, 759 city residents (about atin . ‘one in 2,000) succumbed to the virus. orl IC S IC Yet by the Armistice a month later, the flu had mysteriously vanished. Where did it come from? Why was it so lethal, especially among the young (99 percent of those killed by the epidemic were under the age of 65)? And why did it disappear so quickly? New York Times science writer Gina Kolata’s Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search For the Virus That Caused It (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), is a compelling and suspenseful account which details today’s scientists’ attempts to answer those questions. Amaz- ingly, they've found slides of lung tissue taken from actual vietims. “That they could find lung tissue from some- one who died in 1918 is astonishing to me,” Kolata said inan interview. ~ Whatever the results of this research, Kolata hopes that her book puts today’s reported flu outbreaks in per- spective. She noted that the recent British flu “epidemic” hyped on the Internet affected 155 Britons for every 100,000. In 1918,” she points out, “the rate of infection was 20,000 per 100,000. The scale is not even compara- ble” —Andrew Milner Gina Kolata will speak Wed., Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 19 S. 22d St., 215-563-3737. Free

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