Swine flu: batten down the hatches – and wait
We might learn something from the infamous 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which killed more people on a global scale than the first World War
In 1918,as the catastrophe that was World War I was coming to an end, it seemed hardily imaginable that an even greater disaster, which would kill even more people, could begin.
It did, and it was the great 1918 flu pandemic, commonly referred to as the ‘Spanish flu’ which, by the time it ended, had killed somewhere between 50 and 100 million people. That figure was equivalent to a third of the then ...
