{"id":7937,"date":"2018-10-10T17:49:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T17:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/?p=7937"},"modified":"2018-10-10T17:49:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T17:49:47","slug":"guest-speaker-gina-kolata-kicks-off-the-plague-progress-and-prevention-100-years-after-the-%c2%91spanish%c2%92-flu-changed-the-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/guest-speaker-gina-kolata-kicks-off-the-plague-progress-and-prevention-100-years-after-the-%c2%91spanish%c2%92-flu-changed-the-world-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Speaker Gina Kolata Kicks Off The “Plague, Progress and Prevention: 100 Years after the \u0091Spanish\u0092 Flu Changed the World” Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, September 25, The College of New Jersey kicked off its <\/span>Plague, Progress and Prevention: 100 Years after the \u0091Spanish\u0092 Flu Changed the World<\/span><\/i> series with guest speaker Gina Kolata. Kolata, a science journalist for The New York Times (wiki), spoke about the Spanish Flu Pandemic in light of her book<\/span> Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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All seats and floor space were filled. Kolata commented that she was delighted to see such a big turn out. She started off by presenting the history of the 1918 flu epidemic. Kolata presented the information in a story telling fashion. She told the information chronologically and then related the history back to how they came to discover the 1918 flu virus. She included photos from newspapers and quoted different doctors involved in rediscovering the virus. The clues involved recordings of deaths, with specific date and times. Kolata described the condition of the bodies found, focusing on mentioning fluid in the chest cavity or the condition of the lungs and lung tissue. She mentioned that pathologists were eventually able to find fragments of the virus preserved in an obese woman, which she earlier told the audience to keep in mind from earlier in her discussion why her obesity might be important. Kolata later disclosed that due to the woman\u2019s obesity, the virus was preserved in the woman\u2019s body, and doctors were able to reconstruct the genetic sequence of the virus. Kolata wrapped up her presentation by mentioning how people today are much less susceptible to obtaining the virus due to modern technology. People in 1918 were more susceptible also because of the war. However, there are still factors about the virus that remain ambiguous. She stated, \u201c[It\u2019s] still unclear why younger people were killed by the flu\u201d…….\u201c[There\u2019s] a lot that still remains unanswered..\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Kolata\u2019s article, <\/span>Scientists Uncover Clues To Flu Epidemic of 1918<\/span><\/i>, elaborates further on the history of the epidemic: <\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1999\/02\/16\/us\/scientists-uncover-clues-to-flu-epidemic-of-1918.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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The College of New Jersey\u2019s event series for flu awareness and protection will be running from Sept. 25 to Oct. 10. <\/span>https:\/\/science.tcnj.edu\/2018\/08\/30\/the-great-epidemic-100-years-later-tuesday-september-25-2018-school-of-science-signature-guest-colloquium\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, September 25, The College of New Jersey kicked off its Plague, Progress and Prevention: 100 Years after the \u0091Spanish\u0092 Flu Changed the World series with guest speaker Gina Kolata. Kolata, a science journalist for The New York Times (wiki), spoke about the Spanish Flu Pandemic in light of her book Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It.   All seats and floor space were filled. Kolata commented that she was delighted to see such a big turn out. She started off by presenting the history of the 1918 flu epidemic. Kolata presented the information in a story telling fashion. She told the information chronologically and then related the history back to how they came to discover the 1918 flu virus. She included photos from newspapers and quoted different doctors involved in rediscovering the virus. The clues involved recordings of deaths, with specific date and times. Kolata described the condition of the bodies found, focusing on mentioning fluid in the chest cavity or the condition of the lungs and lung tissue. She mentioned that pathologists were eventually able to find fragments of the virus preserved in an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2642,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elements-of-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2642"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7940,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937\/revisions\/7940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}