July 2, 2010
Interview with John M. Barry author of “The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History” recorded February 9, 2005 in Seattle
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June 30, 2010
When we think of plagues, we think of AIDS, Ebola, anthrax spores, and, of course, the Black Death. But in 1918 the Great Flu Epidemic killed an estimated 40 million people virtually overnight. If such a plague returned today, taking a comparable percentage of the U.S. population with it, 1.5 million Americans would die. In [...]
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