Full dissertation on 1918-19 flu pandemic in North Carolina

The April 11, 2020, edition of The Charlotte Ledger excerpted passages from Lauren Austin’s 2018 UNC Charlotte dissertation about the effect of the flu pandemic a century ago. The flu killed at least 13,700 people in the state.

The full, 285-page dissertation is available here and is posted with permission of the author:

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