Fever of War

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This paper discusses Carol Byerly's portrayal of the deadly 1918 strain of influenza in her book "Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army During World War I". The paper discusses Byerly's assertion that the pandemic was initiated by the ecological environment in the trenches during the first world war. The paper also points out that Byerly's book looks at the impact the pandemic had on the medical profession as well as the enhancements in medicine that came a result of the pandemic. In addition, the paper looks at how Byerly's discusses the discrimination against blacks from becoming doctors at the time.

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"The 1918 strain of the influenza virus caused one of the deadliest pandemics in the history of mankind. The powerful strain sickened one-quarter of the entire world's population including 25 million in the United States. By publishing this book, Carol Byerly became one of the first historians to report on the Influenza epidemic during America's First World War. Byerly's in depth study of credible, academic sources about the influenza epidemic adds to the already extensive history of World War I and gives excellent insight into a major catastrophe hardly mentioned in secondary source history books."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Byerly Carol R., Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I, (New York University Press, 2005)

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