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Pandemics such as the Black Death have altered the course of history. The ravages of the Spanish Flu pandemic were so terrible that at least one culture decided the most humane way of dealing with the aftermath was simply to ignore it—to pretend the disease had not happened. Could a new pandemic pos...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7123587/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03195-4_3 |
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| description | Pandemics such as the Black Death have altered the course of history. The ravages of the Spanish Flu pandemic were so terrible that at least one culture decided the most humane way of dealing with the aftermath was simply to ignore it—to pretend the disease had not happened. Could a new pandemic possibly be worse than the Black Death or the Spanish Flu? Could it be as bad as the Scarlet Plague of Jack London’s story? |
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| spelling | pubmed-71235872020-04-06 Pandemic Webb, Stephen New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales Article Pandemics such as the Black Death have altered the course of history. The ravages of the Spanish Flu pandemic were so terrible that at least one culture decided the most humane way of dealing with the aftermath was simply to ignore it—to pretend the disease had not happened. Could a new pandemic possibly be worse than the Black Death or the Spanish Flu? Could it be as bad as the Scarlet Plague of Jack London’s story? 2019-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7123587/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03195-4_3 Text en © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
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| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7123587/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03195-4_3 |
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