Untimely reading

[ladyofastolat]

A few weeks ago, I read a very interesting book about the 1918 flu pandemic. At about the same time, I also read one about the Black Death, and did quite a lot of online reading about cholera epidemics, typhus on battlefields, and malaria in Britain.

I'm kind of wishing I hadn't done so now.

Comments

[westerling.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just read a book about the 1918 flu pandemic. Weird. That's not my usual reading material, but it was picked by somebody else.

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

Two things we have we didn't have in 1918 (well, a lot of things, but these are the ones that strike me): near-instantaneous global information, and penicillin.

How much help these will be, I do not know. I don't even play a doctor on TV.

[louis-soul.livejournal.com]

Well right now they shut down the Mexican border because of the flu epidemic here in North America. It's not surprising to find people reading about flu etc...
We'll watch and see what the global effects could be.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I had to read far too much about bird flu in my last job :-(

OT: The strangest thing about my new job is not having to think about every damn' thing going - actuarial or management. That's what you get for going from a company of nine employees to one of many thousands.