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Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic?

The United States (and the world) is lagging in infectious disease readiness

At least every couple of years it seems there’s a big news story about some sort of exotic virus making the rounds far across the globe somewhere. We hear about awful things like Ebola and Bird Flu spreading in other … Continue reading

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 The Last Man by Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley speculates on the end of mankind from an incurable plague

Known widely as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley horrified us with her notorious monster brought to life with more humanity than we care to admit. She wrote much more than Frankenstein, however, and her later, lesser-known novel The Last … Continue reading

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“Kyrie” by Ellen Bryant Voigt

Ellen Bryant Voigt's sonnet sequence on the post-WWI Influenza of 1918

Few may be familiar with the Influenza of 1918. Although it took half a million lives in the U.S. and 25 million worldwide, most of whom were young adults, the pandemic somehow eludes due emphasis in our history books. One … Continue reading

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