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Volume 19, Number 4?April 2013
About the Cover
Pale horse, pale rider done taken my lover away1
Polyxeni PotterComments to Author
Author affiliation: Author affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
?It simply divided my life, cut across it like that. So that everything before that was just getting ready, and after that I was in some strange way altered, really,? said Katherine Anne Porter about her nearly fatal encounter with the Spanish flu. ?It took me a long time to go out and live in the world again.? Years later, in a thinly disguised autobiographical novel, she laid out not just her own traumatic run-in with death, the pale rider, but also a rare literary account of the 1918 flu pandemic in the United States and the unprecedented human loss.
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full text
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/4/ac-1904_article.htm
About the Cover
Pale horse, pale rider done taken my lover away1
Polyxeni PotterComments to Author
Author affiliation: Author affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
?It simply divided my life, cut across it like that. So that everything before that was just getting ready, and after that I was in some strange way altered, really,? said Katherine Anne Porter about her nearly fatal encounter with the Spanish flu. ?It took me a long time to go out and live in the world again.? Years later, in a thinly disguised autobiographical novel, she laid out not just her own traumatic run-in with death, the pale rider, but also a rare literary account of the 1918 flu pandemic in the United States and the unprecedented human loss.
...
full text
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/4/ac-1904_article.htm