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From art to zombies, the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic gave us some ‘surprising cultural byproducts’

Amanda McGowan | 
Elizabeth Outka, author of "Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature," argues the 1918 flu pandemic's influence is an ...
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Video: There were objections to Spanish flu lockdowns too. Bad things happened when critics got their way

Dartunorro Clark | 
During the Spanish flu era, officials pushing public health mandates to stop the pandemic in its tracks were met with ...
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1918 Spanish flu redux? ‘Unprepared for the deluge of death’, politicians rejected ‘social distancing’ in bungled handling of the pandemic

Kenneth Davis | 
It was a parade like none Philadelphia had ever seen.... When the Fourth Liberty Loan Drive parade stepped off on September ...
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Should America stop public gatherings to slow coronavirus? Hard lessons learned from the Spanish flu pandemic in Philadelphia in 1918

Frank Fitzpatrick | 
In 2020, as sports officials here and elsewhere struggle to deal with the worldwide coronavirus outbreak, the influenza epidemic of ...
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How 100-year-old tissue samples could rewrite the Spanish flu’s deadly history

Helen Branswell | 
Late one night Michael Worobey began poking around on the internet, looking for descendants of a World War I British ...
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Some US towns were untouched by 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. The military wants to know why.

Richard Gray | 
[On 4 June 1919, the Spanish flu] had finally found its way to the remote native Inuit communities that dotted ...
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Could modern influenza outbreaks escalate into devastating pandemics like the 1918 ‘Spanish Flu’?

David Warmflash | 
It is unlikely that we will ever experience anything like the 1918 outbreak, but researchers say we could see outbreaks ...
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