The 1918 pandemic mistake that changed medicine forever - National Geographic
A misunderstanding about the microbe that actually causes the flu created a ripple effect that changed the future of U.S. drug development, clinical trials, and pandemic preparedness.
In 1892 a prominent German bacteriologist named Richard Pfeiffer made a mistakeone that would have an enormous impact on the pandemic of 1918 and the next century of medicine.
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