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https://test.news.harvard.edu/gazette/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/david-butler-jones_605.jpg605403David Butler-Jones, Canada’s chief public health officer, believes that the relatively mild 2009 global flu outbreak might have been as deadly as the 1918 Spanish flu that killed millions, if not for improved scientific, public health, and medical practices.