medications that treat the flu, mainly things like tamiflu, and the new individual on the blocks, bloxafir. and won't go into them and maybe talk later. those are out there and probably don't work as efficiently as they should, touted to work, but we'll leave that for later. all right, so that is the treatment. enemas, blood letting, laxatives, whiskey, 100 years ago. today, emergency room, stay at home and of course connected to the emergency room department the intensive care unit where the sickest of the sick go for their care. i open the book with a story of a young lady, mother of two who came down with influenza quickly and ended up basically in a matter of hours being medivaced from a small town to pittsburgh where she was put on a heart-lung bypass machine before she recovered from the flu. >> that's the miracle of modern medicine today that clearly was not around 100 years ago. so the treatment. let's now think about the cause of influenza. what do we know about the cause today and what did they know 100 years ago? so, i think in many respects, this is the most frightening aspect