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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Spanish flu and the depiction of disease
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
Discover how history shows that fake news could play a deadly role – by generating potentially lethal misinformation during a future pandemic.
- Book extract
The science of why things spread
From deadly pandemics to viral tweets, Adam Kucharski explores what makes something contagious.
Catalogue
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The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 : perspectives from the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas / edited by María-Isabel Porras-Gallo and Ryan A. Davis.
Date: 2014- Books
A history of Buffalo's medical response to the great influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 / Deborah Bruch Bucki.
Bucki, Deborah Bruch.Date: 1996- Books
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The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 : perspectives from the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas / edited by María-Isabel Porras-Gallo and Ryan A. Davis.
Date: 2014- E-books
- Online
America's forgotten pandemic : the influenza of 1918 / Alfred W. Crosby.
Crosby, Alfred W.Date: c1989- Books
Pale rider : the Spanish flu of 1918 and how it changed the world / Laura Spinney.
Spinney, LauraDate: 2017