Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest medical Holocaust in Modern History

<p>Tonight, my special guest is author Cathrine Arnold here to discuss how the pandemic of 1918 left bodies all over the place.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Before AIDS or coronavirus, there was the Spanish flu - Catharine Arnold's gripping narrative, </strong><strong><em>Pandemic 1918</em></strong><strong>, marks the 100th anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history.</strong></p><p>In January 1918, as World War I raged on, a new and terrifying virus began to spread across the globe. In three successive waves, from 1918 to 1919, influenza killed more than 50 million people. German soldiers termed it <em>Blitzkatarrh</em>, British soldiers referred to it as <em>Flanders Grippe</em>, but worldwide, the pandemic gained the notorious title of “Spanish flu”. Nowhere on earth escaped: the United States recorded 550,000 deaths (five times its total military fatalities in the war) while European deaths totaled more than two million.</p><p>Amid the war, some governments suppressed news of the ...