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Influenza

 

 

Influenza or the flu is thought of as a common but mild disease and yet it kills up to fifty thousand people in the United States each year. 

 In 1918,  one third of the world’s population was infected with influenza, and it is estimated that between  fifty and one hundred million people died in that pandemic.

While we have learned a lot since then, vital questions about the flu virus continue to confound even the leading experts. 

 Dr. Jeremy Brown is an E.R. doctor and author of Influenza: the Hundred- Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History.  Mindy Todd hosts this interview on The Point.

 

 Wednesday March 11 at 7 p.m., Dr. Brown will give a book talk on “Influenza” at Museums on The Green in Falmouth

: the hundred-year hunt to cure the deadliest disease in history. That's the title of the new book by Dr. Jeremy Brown, our guest for this interview on The Point.

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Mindy Todd is the host and producer of <i>The Point</i> on WCAI which examines critical issues for Cape Cod and the Islands. She brings more than 40 years of experience in radio and television to WCAI.