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Here's an interesting video about the world medical catastrophe of the 20th century: The Spanish Influenza Pandemic. In a matter of a few months in 1918-19, 21 million people around the world died from the flu. To put this in perspective, about nine million combatants had been killed from 1914 to 1918 in the First World War.
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Added: 29th June 2008
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1918 had been a very good year, factories across the were running at capacity, wages were good and work was plentiful. With the war winding down, the future looked bright.
With news from the front and the celebrity hoopla over the latest Liberty Loan drive drawing all the attention, a small notice from the Surgeon General's Office warning of a spreading influenza epidemic was easy to overlook.
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351.
More than one-fifth of the world's population suffered from some of the disease's deadly symptoms. The Influenza Pandemic claimed the lives of more than 21,000,000 people worldwide, including 600,000 in America alone. As the afflicted died by the thousands, the survivors lived in fear.
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The Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://1918.pandemicflu.gov/
Middle Tennessee State University
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history...
University of Minnesota
http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.php
Tulane University
http://tulane.edu/
The National Museum of Health and Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/medtour/nm...
Oral Histories
Talking History - I Remember When
Professor Charles Hardy III - producer
http://www.talkinghistory.org/hardy.html
I can not recommend the above site too highly, one of the most outstanding websites for teachers and students of all facets of history
Music
A River Runs Through It
Mark Isham
http://www.isham.com/
Fanfare for the Common Man
Aaron Copeland
Conceived and Produced by
Dale Caruso
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Added: 25th September 2008
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