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The Spanish Flu: The Pandemic the World Forgot

The Spanish Flu: The Pandemic the World Forgot

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In a single year, an invisible killer circled the globe and killed more people than the First World War — perhaps fifty million or more. It could take a healthy young adult in a matter of hours. And then the world did something stranger than the pandemic itself: it almost completely forgot.

This episode unpacks the nineteen eighteen influenza pandemic: why the name is a lie born of wartime censorship, why it hunted the young and the strong instead of the weak, the waves and the masks and the mass graves — and why a plague that touched nearly every family on Earth slipped so quietly out of our collective memory.

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