A Boy Named Flu
What do kindergarten arts and crafts have to do with influenza and the flu? Take a trip down memory lane with grade school activities, remembering Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, the transfer of infectious disease with European colonization of the Americas, the dangers of influenza then and now, and the flu vaccine.
Influenza Virus
© CDC
Christopher Columbus
© Piombo
Show Notes
Credits
Written and performed by Dr. Dustin Edwards and Faith Cox
Music from https://filmmusic.io
“Off to Osaka” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com);
license CC BY 4.0
Images from
Christopher Columbus © Sebastiano del Piombo; public domain
influenza virus © CDC; public domain
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