Stories
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
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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Fake news and the flu
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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The science of why things spread
From deadly pandemics to viral tweets, Adam Kucharski explores what makes something contagious.
Catalogue
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Influenza of a gastric type : its history, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment / by Robert J. Colenso.
Colenso, Robert John.Date: 1899- Books
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Influenza, or, Epidemic catarrhal fever : an historical survey of past epidemics in Great Britain from 1510-1890 / by E. Symes Thompson.
Date: 1890- Books
Cultures of care in Irish medical history, 1750-1970 / edited by Catherine Cox, Maria Luddy.
Date: 2010- Books
Pandemic 1918 : the story of the deadliest influenza in history / Catharine Arnold.
Arnold, CatharineDate: 2018- Pictures
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A doctor reading a newspaper article on the prospect of a decrease in influenza - his wife hopes for the reverse. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1892.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1892Reference: 14297i