This week, Syd & Jess finish the story of the 1918 "Spanish Influenza" pandemic, including some stories that you probably haven't heard. Excavating Inuit flu victims, experiments on incarcerated Americans, and the scores of heroic nurses who made the worst pandemic in history as bearable as possible - it's another exciting week of medical history!
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Sources for this episode:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoration/1918-pandemic-history.htm
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/influenza-boston/
https://www.rayarmat.com/post/647641002830708736/the-1918-flu-virus-infection-test-at-deer-island
https://www.scidaily.cc/articles/en/a-creepy-experiment-on-prisoners-during-the-spanish-flu-pandemic-that-went-wrong
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/reconstruction-1918-virus.html
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/science/2020/03/22/how-an-alaska-village-grave-led-to-a-spanish-flu-breakthrough/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-did-1918-flu-kill-so-many-otherwise-healthy-young-adults
https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/
https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/spanish-flu-women-nurses-heroism.html
https://www.wimlf.org/blog/women-the-unsung-heroes-of-the-1918-flu-pandemic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6R_eFCcVfM
Music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/danijel-zambo/fairytales
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