MODESTO BEE
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Last Updated: August 9, 2006, 04:41:57 AM PDT

Dr. John Walker, Stanislaus County's articulate public health officer, speaking to the Hispanic Leadership Council on July 21, said we face an overdue influenza pandemic.
An influenza pandemic is a virus that runs rampant over a country, nation or continent. The flu pandemic of 1890 was contained in Europe. A second pandemic coincided with the end of World War I and lasted through 1919. Called the Spanish Flu in this country, it killed thousands from coast to coast, 174 in Modesto.

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