Note 5 retrouvez hunting the 1918 flu one scientists search for a killer virus et des millions de livres en stock sur amazonfr achetez neuf ou doccasion. Kirsty duncan a professor of medical geography at the university of toronto has written about a 1998 expedition to retrieve tissues from people buried in spitzbergen norway who were killed by the 1918 flu pandemic kirsty duncan university of toronto press gbp2250 us35 pp 297 isbn 0 8020 8748 5 rating graphic1 graphic2 in three waves the pandemic raged in every continent . Note 5 retrouvez hunting the 1918 flu one scientists search for a killer virus by kirsty e duncan 2003 05 30 et des millions de livres en stock sur amazonfr achetez neuf ou doccasion. Hunting the 1918 flu one scientists search for a killer virus kirsty duncan university of toronto press jan 1 2006 medical 297 pages 0 reviews in 1918 the spanish flu epidemic swept the world and killed an estimated 20 to 40 million people in just one year more than the number that died during the four years of the first world war to this day medical science has been at a loss to . Responding to sustained interest in this medical mystery hunting the 1918 flu presents a detailed account of kirsty duncans experiences as she organized an international multi discipline scientific expedition to exhume the bodies of a group of norwegian miners buried in svalbard all victims of the flu virus constant throughout is her determination to honour the norwegian laws and the