{"id":302,"date":"2018-09-07T13:57:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T13:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dom-staff\/?p=302"},"modified":"2018-09-07T13:57:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T13:57:32","slug":"commemorating-the-1918-spanish-influenza-pandemic-professor-wendy-barclay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dom-staff\/2018\/09\/07\/commemorating-the-1918-spanish-influenza-pandemic-professor-wendy-barclay\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemorating the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic | Professor Wendy Barclay"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-303\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" class=\"wp-image-303 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dom-staff\/files\/2018\/09\/abt_8025410071367724357MTU5NDA5Ng-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Wendy Barclay\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Professor Wendy Barclay<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>A century ago, as the First World War drew to an end, Spanish in\ufb02uenza 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\u2019t 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<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the coming weeks, several media events will commemorate this devastating outbreak, and members of the Department have been involved in the documentation of the pandemic:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professors Wendy Barclay and Peter Openshaw co-authored an article for Lancet Respiratory Medicine, reflecting on the events of 1918 and comparing what we know now about influenza virus disease. Read &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanres\/article\/PIIS2213-2600(18)30272-8\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: one hundred years of progress, but where now?<\/a>&#8216; in full online.<\/li>\n<li>Professor Barclay has also contributed to a BBC documentary, \u2018Pandemic; more deadly than War\u2019, which will be aired in the coming weeks on BBC1.<\/li>\n<li>Earlier in the year, she advised the choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh, who has created<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shobanajeyasingh.co.uk\/explore\/contagion-tour-announced\/\"> a dance performance about the outbreak<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Professor Barclay will also be an invited speaker at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fundacionareces.es\/fundacionareces\/cargarAplicacionAgendaEventos.do?idTipoEvento=1&amp;identificador=2201&amp;nivelAgenda=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an event in Madrid<\/a> that commemorates the Spanish influenza in the last week of September.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A century ago, as the First World War drew to an end, Spanish in\ufb02uenza 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\u2019t get any worse. And yet they did: a virus unlike any other in recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275913,275632,81],"tags":[296189],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-general-updates","category-research","tag-influenza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dom-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dom-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dom-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dom-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dom-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dom-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dom-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dom-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dom-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/dom-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}