The 1918 Spanish Influenza outbreak killed at least 500,000 people in the United States. Health officials expect the H1N1 outbreak this flu season to be serious, but not nearly as deadly.This virus is different from the Spanish flu of 1918, and so is the means to contain it. Shamane Mills has today’s segment of our series on the H1N1 virus…
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