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Dr. Fred and the Spanish Lady: Fighting the Killer Flu

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To at the moment, more questions than answers surround the 1918 outbreak of a deadly flu pandemic that threatened to destroy the arena. History has put death estimates as high as 50 million people around the world. The American death toll from the flu used to be more than 10 times than that of World War I. In Canada, the flu began in Halifax and, wearing the name Spanish flu or “Spanish Lady,” spread regularly west to the Vancouver domain of public health officer Dr. Fred Underhill. Underhill used to be in Toronto on the end of World War I when spent troops came home from Europe as unknowing carriers of probably the most deadly germ the arena had ever faced. He saw first-hand the human helplessness and rapid devastation this new disease brought with it. Its spread used to be inevitable, and the great doctor knew he had to go back home to fight it in his own west-coast jurisdiction of Vancouver, B.C. Included is a foreword by Dr. John Blatherwick, chief medical health officer of The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority.

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