Catching Cold

I finished this book while I was on vacation in Hong Kong. I picked it up at a local bookstore and started reading the opening chapter on bird flu outburst in Hong Kong in 1997. Maybe that was what I looked for. Pete Davies had written a splendid account the Spanish flu virus that wiped out millions globally in 1918. The briefing on bird flu in 1997 served as timely broach into the subject. The rest of the book described the terrifying story of a plague from our recent past. It focused on a small group of scientists trying to trace, dig up, and therefore understand the 1918 virus. The book is splendidly written that you can read it as a thriller.