Nearly a century after it killed millions, a journalist reflects on how a pandemic changed the world Between 1918 and 1920, the Spanish flu infected a third of the global population. It claimed more lives than either World War I or World War II. Nearly a century later, we are still struggling to understand the extent of this pandemic. It crops up from time to time in popular science and history, but no one has yet to take as wide-sweeping an approach as Laura Spinney does in her new book, Pale Rider.

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西班牙流感的遗产

在造成数百万人死亡近一个世纪后，一名记者反思了一场流行病如何改变了世界 1918 年至 1920 年间，西班牙流感感染了全球三分之一的人口。它夺走了比第一次世界大战或第二次世界大战更多的生命。近一个世纪后，我们仍在努力了解这种流行病的严重程度。它不时出现在科普和历史上，但没有人像劳拉·斯宾尼在她的新书《苍白骑士》中那样采用广泛的方法。