Episode 150: Pandemic and Panic: Influenza in 1918 Charleston

Charleston Time Machine - A podcast by Nic Butler, Ph.D. - Fridays

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Under the shadow of the Great War in 1918, Charleston was ill-equipped to counter a major health crisis when influenza spread throughout the community in a wave of acute sickness and death. Quarantine, isolation, and volunteer efforts soon arrested the disease, however, and the city rebounded from its first modern epidemic with a lamentable but limited death toll.