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Fatal Flu: History, Science, And Politics Of The 1918 Influenza Pandemic, Suzanne Vroman
Fatal Flu: History, Science, And Politics Of The 1918 Influenza Pandemic, Suzanne Vroman
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In 1918 an influenza pandemic killed over 50 million people world wide including 675,000 in the United States alone. This Capstone Thesis asks the question: what caused the 1918 pandemic to become so fatal? In order to understand how the influenza outbreak of 1918 turned into one of the world’s deadliest pandemics, I took a unique approach to tackling the mystery of the “Spanish Influenza,” by interpreting the high fatality rate from both a social and natural scientific approach. This project is broken into two parts.
The first part of this paper gives a historical analysis of the 1918 …