Flu The 1918 Flu Pandemic - Extra History #1 - #6

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The 1918 Flu Pandemic - Emergence - Extra History - #1
•Jul 7, 2018



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Between 3 and 6 percent of the world's population died in 18 months when the flu first tried to take over the world. In today's episode we explore the flu outbreak's origins from military camps across the United States and Canada.

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Run time 9:20

 

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The 1918 Flu Pandemic - Trench Fever - Extra History - #2
•Jul 14, 2018


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The flu arrived in France. It found a pleasant home in the crowded wartime trenches, much to the dismay of the Allies who tried to keep the flu a secret. When it made its way to Madrid, not subject to wartime censorship, it picked up the nickname "Spanish flu."

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt-VQGNiSWU&t=474s

run time 9:29

 

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The 1918 Flu Pandemic - Order More Coffins - Extra History - #3
•Jul 21, 2018


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Dr. Welch, Dr. Avery, Dr. Park, and Dr. Williams are on the hunt now to correctly identify this new pathogen and make a vaccine. But public officials are in denial.

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHlYBBZL_y8

Run time 10:09

 

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The 1918 Flu Pandemic - Fighting the Ghost - Extra History - #4
•Jul 28, 2018


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Philadelphia gets hit the hardest. New York fares somewhat better, but everyone is trying to keep hush-hush about a pandemic that still found its way into a children's rhyme: influenza.

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHGz4QvDVlM&t=141s

run time 9:52

 

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The 1918 Flu Pandemic - Leviathan - Extra History - #5
•Aug 4, 2018


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This is a global pandemic. The flu jumps ship, literally, onto the docks of American Samoa, of South Africa, of Alaska, of India. The 1918 flu infects every human continent.

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSxaojFNAsU


run time 10:52

 

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The 1918 Flu Pandemic - The Forgotten Plague - Extra History - #6
•Aug 11, 2018


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Why did everyone forget about the flu pandemic so fast? Partly because its effects were intermingled with the death and depression of World War I, and partly because we chose to forget.

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSLKFwXBdbg

Run time 10:24