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Overview Details In 1918, at the end of the World War I, a flu pandemic ripped through the world with such speed and virulence that by the end of the following year an estimated 40 million people were dead, four times more than those claimed by the war. Where did this particular flu strain come from and what made it so deadly? "Killer Flu" will show how 85 years later, virologists and epidemiologists are still hunting down the answers to those two critical questions. Approximately 60 minutes...

This program shows how modern scientists in both the U.K. and U.S. are in a desperate race to determine why the 1918 flu pandemic - which killed an estimated 100 million - spread so quickly throughout the world and with such virulence at the tail end of World War I.