“Blue darkened to black. The black first appeared at the extremities–the hands and feet, including the nails–stole up the limbs and eventually infused the abdomen and torso. As long as you were conscious, therefore, you watched death enter at your… — Laura Spinney Copy Share Image
“It had long been assumed that school-age children represented ideal vectors of infection, because they are among the preferred victims of seasonal flu, they… — Laura Spinney Copy Share Image
“It was the greatest tidal wave of death since the Black Death, perhaps in the whole of human history.” — Laura Spinney Copy Share Image
“historian Alfred Crosby, who told the story of the flu in America, argued that democracy was unhelpful in a pandemic.” — Laura Spinney Copy Share Image
“The Swiss-born architect known as Le Corbusier retreated to his rooms in Paris and sipped cognac and smoked through the worst of the pandemic,… — Laura Spinney Copy Share Image
“Between the first case recorded on 4 March 1918, and the last sometime in March 1920, it killed 50–100 million people, or between 2.5… — Laura Spinney Copy Share Image
“wake. Conflict makes people hungry and anxious; it uproots them, packs them into insanitary camps and requisitions their doctors. It makes them vulnerable to… — Laura Spinney Copy Share Image
“Blue darkened to black. The black first appeared at the extremities–the hands and feet, including the nails–stole up the limbs and eventually infused the… — Laura Spinney Copy Share Image
