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“This idea that the 1918 flu killed healthy young people is not supported by our findings. Instead, we found that this pandemic, like many others across history, disproportionately killed frail people,” said co-author Sharon DeWitte, a professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder, in anThe research team analyzed the skeletal remains of nearly 400 individuals within the Hamann-Todd Human Osteological Collection housed at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
“The most frail, based on their bone lesions, were 2.7 times more likely to have died during the flu epidemic,” the study found.
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