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'Russian' Flu: the pandemic that wasn't?

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In this episode, Professor Peter Millican discusses a controversial outbreak...
So-called 'Russian' Flu is either the first influenza pandemic we’ll be discussing, or it wasn’t the flu at all. It was either a disease which emerged from and then devastated the country it was named after, or an outbreak which the Russian people barely noticed at the time. It either deserves its place as the seventh pandemic we’re covering in the series, or it’s the pandemic that never was, an outlier in our historical narrative…

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Series
Futuremakers
People
Peter Millican
Julia Mannherz
Claas Kirchhelle
Brian Angus
Blanche Oguti
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: 00:45:49

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