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Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports are created by recipients of research travel stipends and by many others who have conducted research at the RAC. The reports demonstrate the breadth of the RAC's archival holdings, particularly in the study of philanthropy and its effects. Read more about the history of philanthropy at resource.rockarch.org. Also, see the RAC Bibliography of Scholarship, a comprehensive online database of publications citing RAC archival collections.
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Collaboration Across the Pond: Influenza Virus Research, Interwar United States and Britain

January 1, 2014

The 1918-19 influenza pandemic was truly a nightmare disease, a great natural event in the early days of the twentieth century. Historians report that it was the most devastating infectious disease outbreak since the plague swept Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century. The official mortality estimates of the 1918 flu continue to rise as investigators find new data. Based on recent historical epidemiology, the global deaths from the pandemic were between 50 and 100 million.

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