Laura Spinney - Author - Pale Rider
- Brazil experiences 1 wave of pandemic
- Influenza arrives in Rio on British Mail Ship in Oct 1918
- By End of Oct 500,000 sick, city overrun with death
- No quarantine, public officials denied it was flu
- Chile experiences 2 waves of pandemic
- Chilean doctors wrongly conclude it was typhus
- Mass gatherings were not banned
- Dagoberto Godoy, first pilot to fly over Andes, greeted by crowds
- Soon after hospitals were overrun with flu cases
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