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Strange Encounters - Series 2, Episode 5
Five scientists revisit mould-breaking experiments in history. Army doctors in the Flanders trenches were confronted in 1916 by a new and deadly respiratory disease - the first cases of what became called the Spanish Flu. Virologist John Oxford looks at their struggle to understand the disease that eventually killed over 50 million people.
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