Opinion
A greater sense of urgency would make a good vaccine
15 March 2020 - 00:00
In 1918, at the end of World War 1, ships returning a group of black South African soldiers stopped off in West Africa, where the Spanish flu then engulfing the world was raging. SA had been spared the pandemic until then but about 13 of the soldiers were sick by the time they docked in Cape Town...
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