I never really thought much about the flu. It seemed like something that came around every year and people get sick and get better again. I never been interested in it at all but a few years ago im a reporter from the New York Times and i wrote an article for the times about a miraculous discovery. There was a guy at Walter Reed Medical Center and he was writing in a technical journal called Science Magazine that he had managed to get some samples from the soldiers who died in 1918 and in that lung tissue were fragments of the virus that had killed them and when i interviewed this man about his work he told me that the influenza pandemic of 1918 and i was stunned. I had never heard of anything like this. It was the worst Infectious Disease epidemic in recorded history. It killed so many people that if Something Like that came by today it would kill more people than the top 10 killers wrapped together, 1. 5 million americans. And i just found out by looking at the cdc papers by the cent
The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus there been one of the longest titles at hand, why did you write this . Guest it seemed something they would get sick and get better again. Iive never been interested at all. I wrote an article for the times about a miraculous discovery. Theres a guy at Walter Reed Medical Center and he does Science Magazine and somehow managed to get some lung tissues from a soldier that died in 1918 and the next issue there were still fragments and when i interviewed him about his work, he told me about the pandemic of 1918 and i was stunned. Id nevei had never heard of ang like this. It was the worst thing in history. If told so many people that if Something Like that came today if that killed more people than the top ten killers wrapped together, 1. 5 million mortality rate. And i found out by looking at papers by the centers for Disease Control 99 of the people that i and the epidemic were under 65 so it was a devastatin
I had never heard of anything like this. It was the worst Infectious Disease academic. Guilt he killed so many people and if something came by like that today it would kill more people than the top 10 killers if it came by today and i just found out by looking at the papers by the center for Disease Control that 99 of the people that died in the epidemic were under age of 65 so it was an astonishing devastating epidemic and it was this idea that all these years later almost a century later a molecular biology has advanced so much that someone could have lung tissue that still had the viral genes in their and asked that question about what was this virus, how could influenza virus become such a killer and could it happen again and if so would we recognize it in time. Host one reference in the book that may be as many as 202 met 100 Million People died in 1918 from this fluke . Guest historians keep ratcheting the number upward, 40 million is an underestimate and i heard most recently th
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