You know, I actually read this flu book a very long time ago! I wrote a high school research paper on the pandemic--my teacher wanted me to actually try to research the yellow fever outbreak of 1793 in Philadelphia and I parlayed that into a general paper on this pandemic instead. I haven't read it in nearly twenty years, though, and it sounds like it holds up.

Ever since writing that paper (and a talk I heard in college about the cytokine storm immune response mechanism which is the proximate cause of the distinctive 'cranberry jelly' lungs) I have gotten my flu shot every year. Although of course, ironically, a flu shot is no actual defense against a bona fide new pandemic flu strain.