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Nature Medicine 6, 12 - 13 (2000)
doi:10.1038/71463

Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It

Nicholas P. Restifo1

  1. Principle Investigator National Cancer Institute, Bldg. 10, Room 2B/42 National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1502, USA

There is a cemetery in a small railroad town in northern Ohio where I grew up that tells a sliver of the story of the great 'Spanish' influenza pandemic of 1918. One section of the cemetery is full of simple, rough, limestone markers that tilt willy-nilly in the perpetually damp sod of the graveyard.

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