The History of the Forgotten Pandemic
The History of the Forgotten Pandemic In spring 1957, tens of thousands of refugees in Hong Kong fell ill with a novel strain of the flu. The virus would spread around the world, the first global outbreak since the 1918 flu pandemic and the first test of a fledgling early warning system. More than one million people died, 116,000 of them in the United States. But schooling, shopping, and sporting events went on as normal, and the pandemic has largely faded from public memory. A nurse at Montefiore Hospital in New York City receives a flu vaccination in 1957. Photo: Everett...
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