How the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic ended – 2GB – 2GB

Michael is joined by Dr Peter Hobbins, Medical Historian & Honorary Associate Department of History University of Sydney, regarding how the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918 faded away without a vaccine being in existence.
The Spanish flu hit in four successive waves, lasting from February 1918 to mid-1920 and infected 500 million people, which was about a third of the world’s population at the time.
The death toll was estimated to have been somewhere between 17 million and 50 million, making i…

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