Flu by Gina Kolata

As per usual, the book I'm reading is Flu by Gina Kolata. The book goes into the 1918 virus that was sweeping the entire world, how it came into being, how they can vaccinate it, and what other factors may have caused it to be spread out. Many scientists, obviously too many to be named because in the first 2 chapters of this book alone, there are at least 20 scientists that have been named, are flabbergasted at this disease. The only thing stopping these M.D.'s and virus specialists are the other viruses that are popping up as well, including the infamous Swine Flu. Scientists have just been starting to put together the pieces of the puzzle, including animals as one of the major factors into how the disease spread and finding out that farms are also a type of "factory" for the virus. Seeing as how pigs are usually bred on farms, this is a very reliable guess as to where the virus may be "multiplying" and then forcing themselves onto those who are healthy. The healthy, as usual to how viruses spread, go into towns, which are very populated, and then end up coughing, sneezing, breathing out the virus, etc.
The discovery of the swine flu actually almost stops doctors into unwinding the secrets behind the Flu of 1918. Ironically, a few summers ago, swine flu was receiving so much fame, caution, and constant fear of people contracting it. Unfortunately, that was only one variant of swine flu. One of the earliest dated cases of swine actually happened in the same year as the great Flu: 1918. The reasoning behind this is simple: since the great influenza has been contracted into farms, then into pigs, and then into people, it is liable to say that the great Influenza virus may have evolved into one of the dangerous variants of swine flu. The book also states that, as far as we know, there are at least 2 different variants of swine flu all starting with the same symptoms: Coughing, sore throat, and runny nose. The book also states that scientists know of at least 20 different types of Swine Flu.
Many of the terms defined in this book are medically related. Some of them are distemper, which is basically the symptoms of dog flu, epidemic, wide spreading of the disease, infection, which is basically being afflicted with a disease, viral, which means that viruses cause whatever is viral, and, of course, influenza, the disease which this book is based upon and a disease which causes symptoms such as cough, fever, runny nose, headache, etc. This book only gets more and more interesting, and I only wish to read more.