This coming Sunday we will mark 100 years since the armistice that ended World War I. The war shaped global trends for much of the ensuing century; not least of its legacies was the influenza pandemic of 1918 and 1919. Neither humanity's first nor last widespread encounter with influenza, the 1918-19 pandemic is notable for how quickly and widely it spread: in less than 6 months it was on every continent and ultimately infected as many as 1 out of every 3 people on the planet. Unprecedented troop mobilization meant that … [Read more...] about Science Corner: A Century of the Flu