i had never heard of anything like this. it was the worst infectious disease academic. guilt he killed so many people and if something came by like that today it would kill more people than the top 10 killers if it came by today and i just found out by looking at the papers by the center for disease control that 99% of the people that died in the epidemic were under age of 65 so it was an astonishing devastating epidemic and it was this idea that all these years later almost a century later a molecular biology has advanced so much that someone could have lung tissue that still had the viral genes in their and asked that question about what was this virus, how could influenza virus become such a killer and could it happen again and if so would we recognize it in time. host: one reference in the book that may be as many as 202 met 100 million people died in 1918 from this fluke? guest: historians keep ratcheting the number upward, 40 million is an underestimate and i heard mo
we are tired about railing in raising the government. we will always do it. that is a valid response and i can t help myself from raising it in the air but the fact of the matter is we want to live free and we want to know how to grow tomatoes in liberty and like our neighbors and be valuable members of the community. to some degree i d rather be a good neighbor than a good libertarian and i know there is a conflict there but if i had to choose i would choose the good neighbor. wendy mcelroy is the author of the art of being free. you are watching booktv. some booktv, encore booknotes, gina kolata sat down in 2000 to discuss her book about the devastating flu outbreak of 1918 that killed 40 million people worldwide. the author use letters, interviews and news reports to compile data for the book. it s about an hour. c-span: gina kolata, author of flu: the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it. other than being one of