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Plagued by the flu: managing influenza in 1918 and today
Penn Nursing ward in Penn Medicine

A women’s ward in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, circa 1903. Patients unable to pay for their hospital care would’ve come to such a place. When the flu pandemic arrived 15 years later, HUP was at the forefront of providing care to the city.

Plagued by the flu: managing influenza in 1918 and today

A hundred years ago, the flu pandemic hit Philadelphia. Today, Penn researchers are working to prevent a future outbreak.

Katherine Unger Baillie , Michele W. Berger