Hey everyone, Sanjay here.

And on today's podcast, I'm going to share an episode from another show I think you're

really going to enjoy.

It's called Science Versus, and it's hosted by science journalist Wendy Zookerman and

Gimlett, a Spotify studio.

On Science Versus, Wendy takes a closer look at popular fads or trends and just like this

podcast, help separate the fact from the fiction.

So in this episode, a doctor is going to take on a decade-long medical mystery.

What exactly was the 1918 flu?

Hi, I'm Wendy Zookerman and you're listening to Science Versus from Gimlett.

Today on the show, the hunt for one of the biggest killers of the 20th century.

It's almost inconceivable how bad it was.

There are reports of people turning blue and getting this sort of like weird death-looking

face because they weren't getting enough oxygen.

That's producer Rose Rimmla and we're talking about the 1918 flu.

It's estimated that it killed as many as 100 million people worldwide.

And while a lot of us have heard quite a lot about this flu, as Rose started researching

it, one thing that really surprised her was how little science knew about what was killing

people at the time.

They knew about flus, they had the word influenza, but they didn't know exactly what a virus

was because they didn't have microscopes.

I could see anything that small.

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