John and barry, he is a distinguished author of the rising tide in the francis for outstanding book in American History in 1997. His current new york bestseller is the great influenza, he is here to talk to us about that today, he is currently with the World Health Organization on the subject of influenza. When he is done speaking, if you would like to ask questions, there will be two microphones at the back of the room if you can go and get a microphone so your questions can be heard. Come to the back of the room and they will bring you up microphone. Please join me in welcoming john abarry. Thank you very much. As the still not on, you can hear me. It is funny to be sitting here in a Committee Room of louisiana legislatures talking about the subject largely because although you might not think it, politics is very involved in the story of 1918 pandemic. So i cannot take of a better place to talk about politics then louisiana legislature. When you read about the 1918 pandemic in newsp
You can go and get a microphons are your questions can be heard. Please join me in welcoming john barry. [applause] thank you very much. Its kind of funny to be sitting here in a Community Room of the Louisiana Legislature talking about this subject largely because although you might not think it, politics is very involved in the story of the pandemic i cant think of a better place to talk about politics in the legislature. When you read about the 1918 pandemic in the newspapers these days you say the death toll was over 20 million. That estimate comes from the first of the disease thats fairly accurate for the western world but wildly inaccurate for the rest of the world. In a Nobel Prize Winner that spent most of his life studying influenza concluded that the death toll was a minimum of 50 Million People and possibly as many as 100 million. All this was in a world with the population 28 the size of today. So, if you adjust the population, the death toll on 1918 was between 175 to 350
Country, ive been horrified by the stories of Sexual Violence and incest involving young girls in Northern Uganda. It was very tough because some of these things i had not experienced. A father having Sexual Intercourse with a daughter. Granddaughter. Theres nobody who can really support the person who has been raped. To me, i look at thisjustice, its a weakjustice. This region suffered a 20 year hideous insurgency, about 55 dead bodies myself. I describe it as the war was fought in the body of the woman and the woman became the battlefield. The war ended about 15 years ago. But is the post conflict legacyjust as horrific as the war itself . I was born in uganda and most of the early part of my life was spent in uganda. After the recent lockdown due to the covid pandemic. There were these horrific tales that came. Out of this country about an increase in teenage pregnancy. But there seemed to be even more tales that were coming from Northern Uganda, particularly about abuse of young gi
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