1918

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/17/2020
  

  She Posed as a Nurse During the 1918 Flu Pandemic and Went on a Crime Spree

  Julia Lyons preyed on the sick and dying in Chicago.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  5/3/2020
  

  The 1918 Flu Pandemic Killed Millions. So Why Does Its Cultural Memory Feel So Faint?

  by Rebecca Onion

  According to scholar Elizabeth Outka, the tragedy haunts modernist literature between the lines.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/25/2020
  

  Historian John Barry on the Coronavirus Pandemic and the Influenza of 1918

  In this video historian John M. Barry outlines the comparison between the influenza epidemic of 1918 and the coronavirus.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/25/19
  

  The Forgotten Story of Christmas 1918

  by Mary Elisabeth Cox

  We remember the 1914 Christmas Truce as a moment of humanity amid war. Four years later, a darker tale unfolded.

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• SOURCE: Nature
  2-16-14
  

  Study revives bird origin for 1918 flu pandemic

  Model also links avian influenza strains to deadly horse flu.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  2-10-14
  

  Mark Humphries: China epicenter of 1918 flu epidemic, not U.S.

  Humphries writes that victims of a mysterious respiratory disease that broke out in northern China in November 1917.