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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University will honor the centennial of the 1918 influenza pandemic by organizing a series of events on the epidemic.
The Global Health Institute of the school is organizing the "Week of the Epidemic" starting Monday, with public lectures and discussions with leading academics and scientists.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, will deliver a speech on Friday.
Other speakers include Ron Klain, the US-led Ebola tsar headed by former President Barack Obama, and Scott Burns, the screenwriter who wrote the movie "Contagion" in 2011.
The World Health Institute at Harvard says this week-long event aims to explore the state of preparedness for epidemics and pandemics in the 21st century.
The 1918 flu epidemic, also known as the Spanish flu, infected about 500 million people worldwide and killed more than 50 million people.
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