An Unfinished Lesson
Hidden Brain
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The Influenza Pandemic
When the virus essentially travelled from the united states to europead spread in the theatre of world war one, its primary victims were young men in their twenties and thirties. I'm wondering if this might be partly connected to the chronology that you unfolded a few moments ago. The opportunity provided by all of those soldiers, again, really was the groundwork laid out there for the virus. So some of the best accounts of the outbreak come to us not from doctors and scientists, but from writers....
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