Selasa, 06 Juni 2017

An Alaskan Village Holds the Key to Understanding the 1918 Spanish Flu

Scientists had never seen anything like it. Considered the worst pandemic in history, the Spanish flu started in 1917 and, in less than two years, killed approximately 50 million people around the world. Other estimates put the global tally at twice that, but the final number won’t ever be known because the doctors, nurses and …

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