A lesson in past pandemics connects the present to history
By Mackenzi Klemann - mklemann@limanews.com
Timothy Mosher, a nurse practitioner in Lima who volunteered with Samaritan’s Purse during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, shares his experience with Lima schools students on Tuesday during the latest installment of the William Fowler Science lecture series on infectious disease and public health.
Mackenzi Klemann | The Lima News
LIMA Pandemics of the past offer a blueprint for the present, a lesson Lima schools students are learning through the William Fowler Science Series on infectious diseases and public health responses.
“There are a lot of lessons to be learned from the way in which we reacted to pandemics and epidemics historically especially the case of the Spanish influenza pandemic in 1918 and 1919,” said Stanley Blake, an associate professor of history at The Ohio State University-Lima, who shared some of those lessons with Lima schools students d