The Spanish Flu 1918

The Spanish Flu was a pandemic occurring mainly in the fall of 1918 and affecting most of America and Western Europe. In America it killed 675,000 but in Europe and worldwide 20-40 million souls died from the disease. It killed more persons than all the 20th century wars-World War I and II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, and Afghanistan. Years later with a brilliant idea to find and study the virus, a Mayo Clinic trained pathologist found intact viral tissue in the body of a woman buried in permafrost in Alaska in 1990. He found the tissue that started the search that led to the replication of the terrible virus by doctors at the CDC, The United States Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The researchers spun out the virus by polymerization machines which could take a strand of DNA and reconstruct the whole virus. CDC directors kept this virus strongly locked up in Atlanta in a computerized vault which provided strict control over access, yet mysteriously the deadly, quick killing, horribly infectious virus was accidentally sent to a small secondary lab in Illinois, which was an absolute, terrible break of containment. Was this an accident, or the hand of a disturbed scientist at the CDC? Dr. MacArthur Donne, a practicing internist in Austin, Texas was a man who, with his friend and sidekick, Jack Robey, liked to solve mysteries. His medical practice consisted of constant mysteries-was his patient's abdominal pain an ulcer or heartburn? He had to do tests and take a good history and examine the patient carefully to find out, but on occasion he liked to get out of the office and take on something big. Not that he wasn't busy, because at the time he was in the middle of the second biggest romance in his life with a beautiful woman he had met in London. He was dazzled by her, but she lived far away. Then an old friend he had trained with asked him to come to the CDC and help find the assailant, what could he do?Mac and Jack go to Atlanta to save the world and solve the mystery of the deadliest virus ever, loose again in the world. To find out what happens read The Spanish Flu 1918.