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• Respiratory viral infections (epidemics, health)

  As viral infections skyrocket, masks are still a tried-and-true way to help keep yourself and others safe

  14 December 2022, by EISENBERG Marisa, MARTIN Emily Toth

  Masks are an easy and low-cost way to reduce the amount of virus entering the air and spreading to others.
  The cold and flu season of 2022 has begun with a vengeance. Viruses that have been unusually scarce over the past three years are reappearing at remarkably high levels, sparking a (…)

• Respiratory viral infections (epidemics, health)

  A century before Coronavirus, the economic lessons from Spanish Flu

  8 March 2020, by GODIN Romaric

  Along with the medical and health fears over the current Coronavirus outbreak, there are also growing concerns about the economic impact of a pandemic on the world. In 1918 and 1919, at the end of World War I, the so-called ’Spanish Influenza’ killed close to 18 million people. Yet the impact it (…)