In a photo provided by U.S. National Library of Medicine, misinformation in newspapers and government censors helped the flu spread in 1918. The “Spanish flu” pandemic, the subject of a new, ongoing exhibit at the Mütter Museum, killed tens of millions of people worldwide. (U.S. National Library of Medicine via The New York Times)
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