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“What Casanova’s finding meant was that, regardless of their culture, diet, social status or income, one in 10,000 people are particularly vulnerable to flu–a vulnerability that they inherit from their parents.”
― Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

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“It was believed that all creation came from thought, language, and mathematics.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

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“Most of the death occurred in the thirteen weeks between mid-September and mid-December 1918. It was broad in space and shallow in time, compared to a narrow, deep war.”
― Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World

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“Whereas a benign, seasonal virus produced a transient cytokine response and localised, superficial damage to the lung, the 1918 variety produced a strong, prolonged cytokine response and damage that was severe and deep.”
― Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

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“To try to prevent some of these problems, in 2015 the World Health Organization issued guidelines stipulating that disease names should not make reference to specific places, people, animals or food.”
― Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

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