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Laurie Garrett: What can we learn from the 1918 flu pandemic?
In 2007, as the world worried about a possible avian flu epidemic, Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague, gave this powerful talk to a small TED University audience. Her insights from past pandemics are suddenly more relevant than ever (21:05).
For more information about this subject or this speaker, visit this talk at ted.org.
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