Watch Chapter 1 of Influenza 1918.
The Philadelphia Bureau of Public Health had issued a bulletin about the so-called Spanish Influenza as early as July 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.
Dr. Shirley Fannin is a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases in Los Angeles.
