It's one hundred years since the Spanish flu pandemic killed between 50 - 100 million people, but are we any more prepared for the next inevitable outbreak of influenza?
Dr Jeremy Brown looks the history of the flu, some of the eccentric - and dangerous - treatments for it and the role of big business in flu research and treatment.
An influenza medicine depot in Christchurch for "poor" people. Taken by an unknown photographer 4 December 1918. Photo: Alexander Turnbull Library Ref: 1/1-008542-G.
