Almost one hundred years ago, a global pandemic eerily similar to COVID-19 swept through the country. The Influenza Pandemic of 1918, also known as the Spanish Flu, left 8500 Wisconsin residents dead. It also forced mass closures of business and mandatory quarantine orders. Earlier today, WORT producer Jonah Chester spoke with Jim Malewitz, Investigations Editor […]
Public History: WWI and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918
Today on the program, we look back one hundred years to the public health effects of World War I and the influenza pandemic of 1918 with Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, curator of the Staggering Losses exhibit at UW–Madison’s Ebling Library for the Health Sciences. Due to additional interest, the exhibit has been extended through Sunday, April 5, […]
