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2018 should be a big year for us disease buffs. It is the 100th anniversary of the 1918 flu epidemic, perhaps humanity’s worst ever disease disaster. And it might be the year we send another disease to join smallpox in the dustbin of history – with luck, maybe even two.
Winter flu: All the essential facts you need to know
Disease has always ranked with war and famine as humanity’s chief sources of death and misery. But apart from a few things like cancer, many people assume that wealthier countries have pretty much licked disease and famine.
Sadly, a…
