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The 1918 flu pandemic, a cautionary tale
The outbreak of Spanish flu during World War I infected about one-third of the Earth's population, causing at least 50 million deaths, including more than a half-million in the United States, where news reports on the epidemic were prohibited
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"The biggest lesson from the 1918 pandemic is clearly to tell the truth. People can deal with the truth. It's the unknown that's much scarier.”