[ad_1] The rise of April 1918 is the first wave of the flu pandemic, less deadly. The second wave, in which the flu virus became a much more deadly strain, hit Michigan …
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[ad_1] Copyright of the image Archives of Universal History / Getty Images Legend A warehouse used as a makeshift hospital for influenza patients in 1918 It has been 100 years since the …
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[ad_1] The emeritus history professor at the University of Canterbury, Geoffrey Rice, is the author of Black Flu 1918: The Story of the worst public health disaster in New Zealand, Canterbury University …
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[ad_1] Getty Images As Red Cross workers in Boston treated sick soldiers in 1918, William Creighton Woodward, all eyes were on the city's new health commissioner. TROUBLE ARRIVED IN BOSTON just a …
Read More »What a deadly Spanish flu epidemic in 1918 taught us and how the world can prepare for the next pandemic
[ad_1] It was the sickness to put an end to all the others, to infect a third of humanity, to kill tens of millions of people in their bed and to create …
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Read More »The lessons of the 1918 flu pandemic, a hundred years after
[ad_1] The severity and transmissibility of pandemic influenza viruses result from a complex interaction of viral, host, and external factors. We have come a long way since 1918, and pandemic preparedness programs …
Read More »100 years later, the Spanish flu gives lessons for the next pandemic
[ad_1] It was the sickness to put an end to all the others, to infect a third of humanity, to kill tens of millions of people in their bed and to create …
Read More »The lessons of the 1918 influenza pandemic, a hundred years later
[ad_1] This year marks the centennial of the 1918 influenza pandemic, the worst flu epidemic ever recorded. A new study on the human, viral and social factors at the root of its …
Read More »October 1918: One of the deadliest months in history due to the Spanish flu pandemic
[ad_1] On October 16, 1918, a typist in New York wears a gauze mask to protect herself from the Spanish flu. Those who refused to wear the masks were nicknamed slackers and …
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