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    REALLY TRULY GOING VIRAL

    Mar 26, 2019 4 minutes
    BY NANCY TAPPAN

    Influenza is usually a mild seasonal disease, but in 1918-19 a strain of influenza that may have originated in the United States killed tens of millions. In Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History (Touchstone, 2018), Jeremy Brown, MD, an emergency physician and director of the Office of Emergency Care Research at the National Institutes of Health, explains that pandemic and discusses what might prevent a reprise.

    The virus was so different from previous influenza viruses, victims’ immune systems couldn’t recognize it and fight it. Additionally, we believe that some patients’ immune systems overreacted to the virus and attacked the

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