Q Article #2 due Monday 8/24 by 11:59pm Article #2 due Monday 8/24 by 11:59pm Dear Class : Please read p. 10 (starting with Historical Background) to p. 22 and respond to the following: 1. Why is it so difficult to determine where the influenza began? Why is it important? 2. Discuss the "waves" in 1918 to 1921 and speculate on waves in 2020. Are we through the first wave yet? When do you think the 2nd wave will come? 3. What were the age groups most devastated by the influenza on 1918? 4. What is "swine influenza?" Did we give it to the pigs or did they give it to us? Go to your browser and find at least one article on this and be sure to cite your research. 5. What is gene sequencing? Why is it important here? ( Do the best you can--highly technical reading ahead). 6. Describe the future work needed to understand the 1918 pandemic virus. 7. Why bother studying pandemics of the past? 8. Why were the elderly spared in the 1968 H3N2 pandemic virus? 9. Get the book Pandemic by Shah. 10. Citations please. PAM