Who Do You Think You Are?

PESTILENCE AND PLAGUE

The coronavirus pandemic has brought home to the whole world the way in which we are still vulnerable to disease and infection despite the amazing advances in medical science and technology in the past 100 years or so. Just over a century ago the global pandemic known as Spanish Flu wrought havoc on populations already shattered and exhausted by four-and-a-half years of the

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