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President Woodrow Wilson in Paris, Jan. 1919. United States. Army. Signal Corps, photographer/Library of Congress

January 1, 2019

The importance of watching the health of a U.S. President: the Spanish flu and a flawed peace treaty

Jason Opal, McGill University and Steven M Opal, Brown University

While negotiating the end of the First World War at the Versailles Peace Conference, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson collapsed. Was it a neurological disorder associated with the Spanish Flu?

In this April 14, 1947 file photo, a long line winds toward the entrance to Morrisania Hospital in the Bronx borough of New York, where doctors were vaccinating against smallpox. In an attempt to halt the spread of the disease, officials said city residents were being vaccinated at the rate of eight a minute. (AP Photo/File)

October 3, 2018

The elimination of smallpox showed how humans can work together to solve deadly global problems

Steven M Opal, Brown University and Jason Opal, McGill University

Humans have shown that together we can overcome daunting problems, including deadly pathogens like smallpox. It is a lesson of international cooperation and respect that we should pay attention to.

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