The World's Deadliest Pandemic: A Century Later

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the global influenza pandemic of 1918. It infected an estimated quarter of the world’s population and caused the death of more people than the First World War. A century later, this disease is hardly an illness of the past with the CDC estimating tens of thousands of flu deaths in the United States annually. We have a better understanding of viruses, diagnostics and treatments than in 1918 yet societies are more connected than ever and move around the globe–taking our germs with us–than ever before. Historian of science Alan Kraut moderates a discussion between doctor Nicole Bouvier and John Barry, author of The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, about the impacts of the pandemic and its legacy in the present day.

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