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Vaccination is underway for the 2017-2018 seasonal flu, and next year will mark the 100-year anniversary of the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed roughly 40 million people.

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16AWO TIL that, following World War 1, many black veterans were subject to violent murders and abuse. Many were attacked fro refusing to take off their uniforms
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