influenza

When his Jewish parents send him to a Minnesota logging camp to escape the influenza epidemic of 1918, ten-year-old Marven finds a special friend.

In a journal for English class, Finn Reeder relates the impact of an H1N1 flu epidemic among his classmates and teachers, but unfortunately excluding class bully Vic, as everyone seems to go insane trying to avoid or cope with the virus.

Katie misses school while she is home with the flu.

Discusses the outbreak and worldwide spread of the deadly Spanish flu in 1918, methods of treating it, and efforts to study this killer virus and others like it.

Explains what both colds and flu are, how to avoid them, and how to get over an illness as quickly and painlessly as possible.

Discusses the causes, symptoms, methods of prevention, and treatment of two common ailments, colds and flus.

Presents a historical account of the epidemic that swept America in 1918 claiming the lives of up to forty million people, examining the response of public officials to the crisis, the work of medical researchers to find the cause of the outbreak, and the efforts of volunteers to keep the country running.

Maddie is confined to home and bed because of the flu, her mom is in the middle of an important project, Gramma Helen just arrived to help out, and Maddie's only hope for survival seems to be the cute boy who lives next door on whom she's been spying through her bedroom window.

The residents of the small Pacific Northwest town of Commonwealth decides to quarantine themselves against the deadly influenza epidemic, posting guards at the only road leading in and out of town, but when a cold, hungry, and ill soldier begs for sanctuary, the encounter--and its aftermath--shakes the town to its core.

A concise introduction to influenza that explains what it is and discusses causes, symptoms, and treatments with primary source quotations, facts, and illustrations.