The misuse of aspirin may have made the death toll of the 1918 influenza pandemic worse that it should have been. The article explains how that the use of aspirin was used very widely. Families needed hope for a cure and doctors were prescribing it because they didn't really know what else to do. This combined with no one understanding the risks behind aspirin and the toxicity that it could cause, helped to make the pandemic worse. I think that this article was written and the research was done on this topic because of the swine flu that is happening right now. No one wants to make the same mistake twice.
Link:http://www.idsociety.org/Content.aspx?id=15396
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