Darwin Days to focus on medicine

This year’s Darwin Day Program will focus on the frontiers of medicine and evolutionary medicine.

It will look at the 100th anniversary of the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed somewhere from 50 to 100 million people.

The program will feature two speakers and a film, “Influenza 1918/American/PBS.”

The first speaker, Michael Osterholm, recently published a book called “Deadliest of Enemies: Our War Against Killer Germs.”

The other speaker, Christopher Brooke, will address the evolutionary view and control of influenza virus. The programs are set for 7 p.m. in the Lecture Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center on Sunday, Feb. 11, through Tuesday, Feb. 13. All events are free and open to the public.

 

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