![Professor Wendy Barclay](https://blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk/dom-staff/files/2018/09/abt_8025410071367724357MTU5NDA5Ng-1024x685.jpg)
A century ago, as the First World War drew to an end, Spanish influenza brought terror to an already shell-shocked world. Industrialised warfare had caused the loss of many young lives and there must have been a sense that things couldn’t get any worse. And yet they did: a virus unlike any other in recent memory unleashed itself onto a weakened and highly mobile population, causing more than 50 million additional deaths (more…)