Grappling with a Flu Pandemic

A cartoon of the "Spanish" flu microbe dressed as a Don Juan figure, from a Spanish newspaper of the time (1918-19).

When graduate student Ryan Davis, Spanish, started looking at the discourse around the 1918-19 flu pandemic in Spain, he found a fascinating example of a culture reaching for an established narrative to help make sense of a bewildering disease.

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