Arizona often has played the role of refuge for new residents seeking the healthful benefits of its sunny weather and dry desert climate.Here is a look at 10 of the most significant health and medicine stories of the past 125 years.More than 2,000 Arizonans died during the influenza pandemic of 1918, which claimed an estimated 30 million to 50 million lives across the globe. The state’s population was under 335,000, and the state had no big cities. The disease likely reached Phoenix in September and rapidly spread across the state. Arizonans had little understanding of how the disease spread. Dogs were blamed, prompting police and locals to round up and kill canines. Phoenix and Tucson passed laws requiring people to wear gauze masks in public, incorrectly believing that the masks could stop the flu’s spread. The pandemic disrupted life as schools, theaters and public places closed and the economy suffered. The flu peaked in November but began to fade through winter. Scientists would not identify influenza type A until 1933, and the first flu vaccine was available in 1944.The federal government launched Medicaid for low-income and disabled residents, but Arizona became the last state to join the program when it… Read full this story
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