Influenza

Roni K. Devlin M.D. is an Infectious Diseases physician at Mercy Health Partners in Muskegon, Michigan. She received her medical degree from the University of Colorado, and returned to her home state of Michigan to complete a combined residency in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. She then finished her subspecialty training in Infectious Diseases at Dartmouth. She now resides in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she divides her time between the practice of medicine and the world of bookselling as the owner of Literary Life Bookstore & More, Inc.

• List of FiguresSeries ForewordPrefaceIntroduction1.The Influenza Virus2.The Epidemiology of Influenza3.The Influenza Pandemic of 19184.The Clinical Manifestations of Influenza5. Making the Diagnosis of Influenza6. Treatment and Prevention of InfluenzaConclusionsTimelineGlossarySelected Bibliography

Devlin, an infectious diseases physician, presents a history of the influenza virus for general readers that looks at the disease from a biographical perspective, introducing germ theory and telling the story of influenza's discovery, characteristics, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, methods of diagnosis, prevention and treatment, and the pandemic of 1918.