Watch Chapter 1 of Influenza 1918.
The surprise pandemic of 1918 shook Americans’ confidence in the medical establishment that had previously found vaccines for other lethal diseases.
In March 1997, a team of pathologists published a report concerning the discovery of genetic material from the influenza of 1918.
When influenza began to cut its deadly path across the U.S. in the autumn of 1918, it did so with such speed and fatal efficiency that some believed sinister forces were at work.Â
