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: Written before the COVID-19 pandemic, the book’s chapters on "naming" viruses to avoid stigma and the human tendency toward superstition and racism during a crisis feel "eerily resonant" today.

: Spinney explores why the virus was so uniquely deadly to healthy young adults (ages 20–40). It likely triggered an overreaction of the immune system, meaning those with the strongest defenses were paradoxically at the highest risk. Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It ...

: The book traces the virus from Alaska to Brazil and Persia, debunking the myth of its origin. Despite its name, the "Spanish Flu" did not start in Spain; the name stuck because Spain, as a neutral country in WWI, was one of the few places reporting on it without wartime censorship. : Written before the COVID-19 pandemic, the book’s