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Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen is a 2009 television drama. It is a dramatization of Dr James Niven 's attempts to deal with the Spanish flu , a 1918-1920 flu pandemic, in Manchester . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was written by Peter Harness and it starred Bill Paterson as Niven, along with Mark Gatiss , Kenneth Cranham and Charlotte Riley .
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus.
Flu (film) P. Post Mortem (2020 film) S. Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen; The Stand (1994 miniseries)
A dramatisation of the Spanish flu period in Manchester was transmitted on BBC television as Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen on 5 August 2009 and again on 25 September 2012. [11] On 17 March and 26 November 2020, the 2018 documentary "The Flu That Killed 50 million" was rebroadcast, and Niven and his work featured heavily. [12]
1918 campaign on the dangers of Spanish flu Ministry of Health poster used during the Second World War, designed by H. M. Bateman. Later film produced in 1945 "Coughs and sneezes spread diseases" was a slogan first used in the United States during the 1918–20 influenza pandemic – later used in the Second World War by Ministries of Health in Commonwealth countries – to encourage good ...
Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak is a 2020 American documentary series about pandemics.It was released on Netflix on January 22, 2020. [1] The series covers a range of issues such as the possibility of an influenza pandemic, research into achieving a universal vaccine, emerging viruses, anti-vaxxers, and the Ebola outbreak in Africa.
In 2017 she published Pale Rider, [1] an account of the 1918 flu pandemic, [13] [14] published by Jonathan Cape who acquired the global rights in an auction in 2015. [15] Spinney indicates that the global pandemic was the biggest disaster of the 20th century, exceeding the death tolls of both World War I (17 million) and World War II (60 ...
Ethel Dickenson. Ethel Gertrude Dickenson (July 6, 1880 – October 26, 1918) was an educator and nurse born in St. John's, Newfoundland.She is noted as being one of the Remarkable Women of Newfoundland and Labrador for her tireless work and death in the care of patients during the outbreak of Spanish influenza at St. John's in 1918.