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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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On contagion
| Daisy LafargeNaki Narh
Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.
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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.