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How historical disease detectives are solving mysteries of the 1918 flu

  • Written by Gerardo Chowell, Professor of Mathematical Epidemiology, Georgia State University
It can be difficult to find records from epidemics long past.U.S. National Library of Medicine

One hundred years ago, a novel pandemic influenza virus spread rapidly around the world. It killed about 1 to 2 percent of the human population, primarily young and often healthy adults.

The centennial of the 1918 pandemic is a good time to take stock of...

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