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The 'Spanish' Flu

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Futuremakers
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Professor Peter Millican arrives in the twentieth century, during the last years of the Great War, to a pandemic which you may have read a lot about during the early coverage of our current COVID outbreak.
After the Black Death, the so-called ‘Spanish’ Flu has one of the most famous monikers of any pandemic, but does it deserve such notoriety?

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Series
Futuremakers
People
Peter Millican
John Oxford
Brian Angus
Claas Kirchhelle
Keywords
history
pandemics
smallpox
Plague
cholera
Black Death
hiv
aids
Spanish flu
Russian flu
ebola
oxford university
oxford
Peter Millican
epidemics
disease
Health
Medicine
Covid
coronavirus
Covid-19
Department: Oxford University Development Office
Date Added: 14/01/2021
Duration: 00:47:23

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