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Lesson Learned From 'The Great Influenza'

The first great flu pandemic was in 1918, and it kill 40 million people. John Barry is the author of The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History. He talks with Steve Inskeep about the lessons learned from how the world responded to that crisis.

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