The Spanish Flu pandemic
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🗓️ 12 February 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:45.3 | The symptoms were horrendous and of swift and virulent onset. So for instance, a soldier home from leave, who'd suddenly gone down with symptoms of Spanish flu in the middle of Manchester, having perhaps just got off |
| 0:55.7 | the train at Manchester Piccadilly Station, wouldn't suddenly just feel a bit weak and a bit ill |
| 1:01.8 | and want to get home to his mum's and lie down? He would collapse. He would be hemorrhaging |
| 1:06.9 | blood from his lungs. He might have blood coming out of his nostrils. |
| 1:15.0 | That was Catherine Arnold speaking about the devastating 1918 Spanish flu outbreak. |
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| 1:47.7 | Today we're going to be exploring the story of the Spanish flu outbreak, which killed tens of millions of people across a world that was already racked by war in 1918. |
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