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    A Key Lesson From The 1918 Flu Pandemic? 'Tell The Truth,' One Historian Says

    Dec 20, 2017 4 minutes
    Influenza victims crowd into an emergency hospital near Fort Riley, Kan., in this 1918 file photo. (National Museum of Health/AP)

    The death toll from the 1918 flu pandemic surpassed all the military deaths in the two world wars.

    Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with historian John M. Barry (@johnmbarry), who wrote about it in his book “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.”

    Interview Highlights

    On the virus

    “You had a lethal new influenza virus that entered the population. No one is sure exactly where. It may have been in southwestern Kansas, it could have been Indonesia, could have been France, there are several

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