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'Russian' Flu: the pandemic that wasn't?

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Duration: 0:45:49 | Added: 14 Jan 2021
In this episode, Professor Peter Millican discusses a controversial outbreak...

So-called 'Russian' Flu is either the first influenza pandemic we’ll be discussing, or it wasn’t the flu at all. It was either a disease which emerged from and then devastated the country it was named after, or an outbreak which the Russian people barely noticed at the time. It either deserves its place as the seventh pandemic we’re covering in the series, or it’s the pandemic that never was, an outlier in our historical narrative…

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