The 'greatest pandemic in history' was 100 years ago – but many of us still get the basic facts wrong
- Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
Influenza victims crowd into an emergency hospital near Fort Riley, Kansas in 1918.AP Photo/National Museum of Health
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the great influenza pandemic of 1918. Between 50 and 100 million people are thought to have died, representing as much as 5 percent of the world’s population. Half a billion people were...