Study challenges notion of 'pandemic' flu

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A typist wears a mask in New York during the Spanish flu influenza pandemic of 1918. A new study by MIT graduate student Peter Doshi finds that death rates in pandemic seasons were no higher than--and were sometimes exceeded by--those for severe nonp ...
A typist wears a mask in New York during the 'Spanish flu' influenza pandemic of 1918. A new study by MIT graduate student Peter Doshi finds that death rates in pandemic seasons were no higher than--and were sometimes exceeded by--those for severe nonpandemic seasons. Photo / National Archives

The widespread assumption that pandemic influenza is an exceptionally deadly form of seasonal, or nonpandemic, flu is hard to support, according to a new study in the May issue of the American Journal of Public Health.


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