The Nature of Things

The Nature of Things

Dead Heat (39x11)


:

The Spanish flu reserved its special virulence not for children and the elderly but for those in the prime of life. In just a few months it killed more people than the ones that died in World Wars I and II, Vietnam and Korea combined. In the intervening years there has always remained the threat of a similar killing plague. If it hit again, the medical profession would still have been powerless.

  • :
  • : 1046
  • : 14
  • CBC
  • 20