The Spanish Flu pandemic

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The Spanish Flu pandemic

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Feb 12, 2018

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Catharine Arnold joins us to discuss her new book Pandemic: 1918, which explores the story of the influenza outbreak that caused devastation across the globe a century ago For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Feb 12, 2018

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