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“The elderly, normally the group most susceptible to influenza, not only survived attacks of the disease but were attacked far less often. This resistance of the elderly was a worldwide phenomenon. The most likely explanation is that an earlier pandemic , so mild as to not attract attention, resembled the 1918 virus closely enough that it provided protection. (p. 408 paperback edition)”

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Book:The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

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“Man might defined as "modern" largely to the extent that he attempts to control, as opposed to adjust himself to, nature.”

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Book:The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

Source: The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

“Nature chose to rage in 1918, and it chose the form of the influenza virus in which to do it. This meant that nature first crept upon the world in familiar, almost comic, form. It came in masquerade. Then it pulled down its mask and showed its fleshleass bone.”

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Book:The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

Source: The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

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