Pandemic - The Deadly Flu of 1918
Most students are aware of New Zealand’s participation in the First World War, but few will know of the flu pandemic that swept across the world in its aftermath.
About this resource
Series: School Journal Level 4 June 2018
Reading year level: 8
Category: Non-fiction
Topics: 1918, Black November, change, flu, health, influenza epidemic, New Zealand history, pandemics, public health, survival, the First World War, viral mutations, viruses
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Pandemic - The Deadly Flu of 1918
Words by Renata Hopkins
In New Zealand, the epidemic took over nine thousand lives in under two months – an appalling number, especially if compared with the eighteen thousand soldiers whose lives were lost to the war.