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The Spanish Flu pandemic

Catharine Arnold explores the story of the influenza outbreak that caused devastation across the globe a century ago

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Catharine Arnold joins us to discuss her new book Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History, which explores the story of the influenza outbreak that caused devastation across the globe a century ago

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