Pourquoi la grippe «espagnole»?

Quelles leçons peut-on tirer des épidémies ? Pour ce dernier épisode de petites et grandes histoires des épidémies, Caroline Lachowsky interroge l’anthropologue Fréderic Keck, directeur du laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale au CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) ... Show More

Remontons aux origines de la pandémie du VIH-Sida qui a fait 36 millions de morts dans le monde. Quand et comment ce virus est-il passé du singe à l’homme ? Une longue histoire, complexe retracée par le virologue Ahidjo Ayouba de l’Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD ... Show More

Une pandémie peut-elle changer la face du monde ? Nouvel épisode de Petite et grande histoires des épidémies où l’on retrouve, au micro de Caroline Lachowsky, la journaliste et essayiste britannique Laura Spinney, auteure d’un ouvrage de référence : La grande tueuse. Comment la g ... Show More

‏قبل ما يقرب عن مئة عام، واجه العالم كارثة صحية انتشرت في العديد من البلدان، مخلفة ما يزيد عن خمسين مليون قتيل وملايين المصابين، فكيف استطاع العالم الإفلات من الإنفلونزا الإسبانية؟ وكيف أثرت تلك الجائحة على البشر؟ 

<p>It infected one-third of the world's population and killed 50 million people, but for most of us the Spanish Flu is little more than a footnote of history. Author and science journalist Laura Spinney tells us what we have still to learn from from the 20th Century's worst pande ... Show More

Catharine Arnold joins us to discuss her new book Pandemic: 1918, which explores the story of the influenza outbreak that caused devastation across the globe a century ago Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcast ... Show More

The influenza pandemic of 1918-20 infected about one-third of the world’s population at the time, killing at least 50 million people. Occurring during the First World War, what became known as the Spanish Flu spread rapidly as soldiers moved across continents. It overwhelmed hosp ... Show More

<p>More than a century ago, millions of people around the world died in a massive influenza pandemic. The so-called "Spanish flu" outbreak of 1918 revealed a truth about viruses: they don't just infect us biologically. They also detect fissures in societies and fault lines betwee ... Show More

My special guest is author Catherine Arnold who's here to discuss a pandemic in the early 19th century that left bodies all over the place.  Get her book Pandemic 1918 - Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest medical Holocaust in Modern History on Amazon or your local book store.  ... Show More