Pandemic (360G-Wellcome-208447_Z_17_Z)

One hundred years ago, the Spanish Flu, history’s most dangerous virus, infected up to a third of the world's population and wiped out 5% of humanity. Often treated as a footnote to the story of WWI… this major BBC docu-drama will reveal how the pamdemic was in fact the most important legacy of the conflict. The story of now - a chilling warning from history that the threat is still real today. The nightmare scenario of a global pandemic has not gone away - today, the 1918 super-virus continues to wreak its havoc, the mother to new variants and mutations, including the Avian flu.. And our best chances of surviving future disaster come from the lessons learnt a century ago. This two-part special will tell the story of the biggest pandemic in human history - and the hope it offers to protect us from future disaster. A gripping human drama, we will use a dynamic visual style - with compelling graphics and documentary recreations of individual testimony - to capture the story of the terror born in the trenches of WWI, its explosive impact around the world and the desperate efforts to understand and combat the virus which continue today...