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‘That Terrible Time’: Reflections on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand
‘That Terrible Time’: Reflections on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand
This year marks the centenary of the ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic of 1918, in which at least 9,000 New Zealanders died in less than two months. Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Canterbury Geoffrey W Rice reflects on the ‘Black Flu’ in the latest issue of the New Zealand Medical Journal
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