Topic spans: 1918 - 2005
Influenza: Battling The Last Great Virus
For centuries it has silently stalked us, killing tens of millions of people and evading all the best efforts at a permanent cure. It is influenza, a potentially lethal bug whose unique ability to reinvent itself in deadlier forms has prompted researchers to dub it the "last great virus" facing humanity. CBC Archives explores the deadly history of influenza and looks at what's being done to avoid a new global pandemic.
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15 radio clips
Bracing for the Hong Kong flu
Broadcast Date: Dec. 16, 1968
Reports from across North America about the impact of the 1968 pandemic.Bracing for the Hong Kong flu
Medium: Radio
Program: The World At Six
Broadcast Date: Dec. 16, 1968
Host: John O'Leary
Reporter: Joan Donaldson, Al Robbins, Jess Marlowe
Duration: 3:24
Last updated:
Dec. 12, 2005
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Radio
3:15
March 7, 1949
Polio patients from Canada's North are flown in for treatment.
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In the early 1980s doctors began noticing rare cancers and infections striking otherwise healthy young gay men. Something was destroying their immune systems — something fatal and possibly contagious. At...
Bracing for the Hong Kong flu.
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Last updated: Dec. 12, 2005.
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