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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
| Mark Honigsbaum
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
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Spanish flu and the depiction of disease
| Allison C Meier
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed many millions more than World War I did. Find out why contemporary artistic depictions of its devastating impact are so rare.
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Fake news and the flu
| Hannah MawdsleyThomas S G Farnetti
Discover how history shows that fake news could play a deadly role – by generating potentially lethal misinformation during a future pandemic.
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- Book extract
The science of why things spread
| Adam KucharskiCamilla Greenwell
From deadly pandemics to viral tweets, Adam Kucharski explores what makes something contagious.