This book came to me highly recommended.  I think it would be a great book for you doctors and nurses out there, or other science buffs. I am not one of those. I was a bit weighed down by the subject matter and kept wishing it was over. I finally just stopped - which I never do! It is an account of the research done on the 1918 flu. I had no idea there was a 1918 flu, so it was all new to me. If you are interested in how doctors figure out what is making us sick and then how they decide what to do about it, you will like this book. I, however, am glad to be through with it.