Influenza—more specifically the Spanish flu—left its devastating mark in both world and American history in 1918. The microscopic killer circled the entire globe in four months, claiming the lives of more than 21 million people. The United States lost 675,000 people to the Spanish flu in 1918-more casualties than World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined. Pharmaceutical companies worked around the clock to come up with a vaccine to fight the Spanish flu, but they were too late. The virus disappeared before they could even isolate it.
- Read Book 9 Chapter 3.
- Read pages 34-39 in Outbreak.
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