Read The Great Influenza Online
Authors: John M Barry
'I don't think Noguchi was honest':
Benison,
Tom Rivers,
95.
'objections were very unreasonable':
Corner,
History of Rockefeller Institute,
191.
'learn about Shope's Iowa work':
Flexner to Lewis, Nov. 21, 1928, Lewis papers, RUA.
in some herds:
Richard E. Swope, 'Swine Influenza I. Experimental Transmission and Pathology,'
Journal of Infectious Disease
(1931), 349.
'went right to work':
Lewis to Flexner, Feb. 1, 1929, Lewis papers, RUA.
'Lewis well':
Russell to Smith, Jan. 28 through May 23, 1929, 'our weekly cable arrived containing the words 'Lewis well,'' each with notation 'copy mailed to Mrs. Lewis,' Lewis papers, RUA.
''Lewis's illness began'':
Russell to Flexner, June 29, 1929, Lewis papers, RUA.
'Lewis condition critical':
George Soper to Russell, June 29, 1929, Lewis papers, RUA.
'Marked renal involvement':
Davis to Russell, June 28, 1929, Lewis papers, RUA.
'Probably laboratory infection':
unsigned to Russell, July 1, 1929, Lewis papers, RUA.
Shope walked down Maple:
Lewis to David Aronson, Aug. 21, 1998, provided by Robert Shope.
'order some flowers':
Smith to Shope, July 16, 1929, Lewis papers, RUA.
'Dear Sirs':
Janet Lewis to Board of Scientific Directors, July 30, 1929, Lewis papers, RUA.
'study of light phenomena':
'Scientific Reports of the Corporation' (1929), 6, RUA.
'recrudescence of poliomyelitis':
Ibid., 11.
'unfinished work of Dr. Noguchi':
Ibid., 10.
'white paint and some other improvements':
Flexner to Sawyer, March 17, 1930, Lewis papers, RUA.
blamed cigarettes:
Interview with Robert Shope, Jan. 2002; interview with David Aronson, April 8, 2003.
'in association with Sewall Wright':
Simon Flexner, 'Paul Adin Lewis,'
Science
(Aug. 9, 1929), 133-34.
Shope did demonstrate:
Paul A. Lewis and Richard E. Shope, 'Swine Influenza II. Hemophilic Bacillus from the Respiratory Tract of Infected Swine,'
Journal of Infectious Disease
(1931), 361; Shope, 'Swine Influenza I,' 349; Shope, 'Swine Influenza III. Filtration Experiments and Etiology,'
Journal of Infectious Disease
(1931), 373.
took him hunting and fishing:
C. H. Andrewes,
Biographical Memoirs, Richard E. Swope
(1979), 363.
Afterword
death toll' 21,800,000:
www.unaids.org
/worldaidsday/2002/press/update/epiupdateen/pdf; for cumulative death toll,
www.sfaf.org
/aboutaids/statistics/.
In the United States' 467,910:
Centers for Disease Control, 'AIDS Surveillance Report' (Sept. 24, 2002).
8,998 people:
Ibid.
if a new pandemic:
Martin Meltzer et al., 'Modeling the Economic Impact of Pandemic Influenza in the United States: Implications for Settling Priorities for Intervention,'
Emerging Infectious Disease
(1999).
a striking resemblance:
J. S. Oxford, 'The So-called Great Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 May Have Originated in France in 1916' (Dec. 2001), 1857.
China as the possible source: J
Edwin O. Jordan,
Epidemic Influenza
(1927), 73.
'could be reasonably regarded':
Ibid., 73.
'purulent bronchitis':
Ibid., 62.
in parts of Madagascar:
'Outbreak of Influenza, Madagascar, July-August 2002,'
Weekly Epidemiological Report
(2002), 381-87, passim.
highly unlikely that the pandemic:
Jordan,
Epidemic Influenza,
73.
'probably carried from the United States':
David Thomson and Robert Thomson,
Annals of the Pickett-Thomson Research Laboratory,
v. 10,
Influenza
(1934), 1090.
Based on rates of mutation:
Personal communication with Peter Palese, Aug. 2, 2001; personal communication with Jeffrey Taubenberger, June 5, 2003.
infected eighty-three people:
Reuters, Feb. 21, 2003, reported on
www.medscape.com
, March 5, 2003.
influenza was a bad cold:
Interview with Dr. Giovanni Antunez, July 8, 2003.
pages' torn out of:
Emily Boutilier, 'How to Kill,'
Brown Alumni Magazine
(Jan./Feb. 2003), 88.
kill 120,000 people:
L. M. Wein et al., 'Emergency Response to an Anthrax Attack,'
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2003) 4346-51; G. F. Web, 'A Silent Bomb: The Risk of Anthrax as Weapon of Mass Destruction,'
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2003) 4355-56.
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Washington Post
Washington Star
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