I never really thought much about the flu. It seemed like something that came around every year and people get sick and get better again. I never been interested in it at all but a few years ago im a reporter from the New York Times and i wrote an article for the times about a miraculous discovery. There was a guy at Walter Reed Medical Center and he was writing in a technical journal called Science Magazine that he had managed to get some samples from the soldiers who died in 1918 and in that lung tissue were fragments of the virus that had killed them and when i interviewed this man about his work he told me that the influenza pandemic of 1918 and i was stunned. I had never heard of anything like this. It was the worst Infectious Disease epidemic in recorded history. It killed so many people that if Something Like that came by today it would kill more people than the top 10 killers wrapped together, 1. 5 million americans. And i just found out by looking at the cdc papers by the cent
I had never heard of anything like this. It was the worst Infectious Disease academic. Guilt he killed so many people and if something came by like that today it would kill more people than the top 10 killers if it came by today and i just found out by looking at the papers by the center for Disease Control that 99 of the people that died in the epidemic were under age of 65 so it was an astonishing devastating epidemic and it was this idea that all these years later almost a century later a molecular biology has advanced so much that someone could have lung tissue that still had the viral genes in their and asked that question about what was this virus, how could influenza virus become such a killer and could it happen again and if so would we recognize it in time. Host one reference in the book that may be as many as 202 met 100 Million People died in 1918 from this fluke . Guest historians keep ratcheting the number upward, 40 million is an underestimate and i heard most recently th
Again. I was never interested in it at all. A few years ago im a reporter for the New York Times i wrote an article for the times about really miraculous discovery. He was reporting in a technical journal. He managed to get the lung tissue. In that lung tissue there was still in fragments of the virus that had killed him. When i interviewed this man he told me about the influenza pandemic of 1918. And i was stunned. Ive just never heard of anything like this. It was the worst Infectious Disease epidemic. It killed 70 people. If Something Like that came by today. It would kill more people than the top ten killers. I just found out by looking at the papers. 99 percent of the email that died in this pandemic were under the age of 65. It was an astonishing devastating epidemic and what made the story for me was this idea all of these years later. They have actually have some lung tissue. What was this virus. How could it become such a killer. And could it happen again. If so would you reco
This is. Well, good afternoon, everybody. Im glad to see that were all alive. Well, you all have survived. Now, seven weeks of american history, death, dying in us history. Weve reached week seven. Im Stephen Berry your host for all things morbid today. Not any grimmer than any other day in this class. Were to be talking about the history of investigation, the evolution of, the system of Death Investigation, United States, which really matures and comes of age and about the dawn of the 20th century. So it is a 19th century story of how Death Investigation becomes forensic and ultimately becomes the csi series. Now, we all have a pretty lurid, i think, of Death Investigation thats by local news, right . This graphic is everywhere. I found a million of these. All right. Tape and chalk outnd sopolice we have a very lurid sense of death ination from the if it bleeds, it leads school of journalism in the United States. But im going to take the evolution of this system very seriously and tal
History, death, dying in us history. Weve reached week seven. Im Stephen Berry your host for all things morbid today. Not any grimmer than any other day in this class. Were to be talking about the history of investigation, the evolution of, the system of Death Investigation, United States, which really matures and comes of age and about the dawn of the 20th century. So it is a 19th century story of how Death Investigation becomes forensic and ultimately becomes the csi series. Now, we all have a pretty lurid, i think, of Death Investigation thats by local news, right . This graphic is everywhere. I found a million of these. All right. Its always same with a police tape and chalk outlines and so we have a very lurid sense of Death Investigation from the if it bleeds, it leads school of journalism in the United States. But im going to take the evolution of this system very seriously and talk about how its developed over time, starting with its historical importance. Now, the most obvious