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Topic: h1N1

Concept: The New York Times' take on Coronavirus, featuring a 1882 illustrated depiction of diseases emanating from Chinatown. (Getty Images/WikiCommons/Salon)

The racist art of naming a virus

Marie Myung-Ok Lee
In this 1918 photograph provided by the National Museum of Heath, influenza victims crowd into an emergency hospital at Camp Funston, a subdivision of Fort Riley in Kansas. (AP Photo/National Museum of Health, File)

Flu strain from 1918 pandemic is back

Nicole Karlis
A nurse prepares a flu shot. (AP/David Goldman)

Half of US adults still without flu shot

Nicole Karlis