Read the passage from when birds get the flu by john diconsiglio. the deadliest pandemic of the last 100 years was the spanish flu. it started in the fall of 1918. world war i was ending. tired soldiers were returning to their homes. no one imagined that another enemy was about to attack. which excerpt from the passage most belongs in the body of an essay supporting the claim that scientists should continue to study the spanish flu? the deadliest pandemic of the last 100 years was the spanish flu. it started in the fall of 1918. world war i was ending. tired soldiers were returning to their homes. no one imagined that another enemy was about to attack.

The answer is, "The deadliest pandemic of the last 100 years was the spanish flu".

The correct answer would be: The deadliest pandemic of the last 100 years was the Spanish Flu. This would be the best argument that could be used in an essay where it is claimed that scientists need to keep studying the Spanish flu.

Explanation:

"When Birds Get Flu and Cows Go Mad: How Safe Are We" is a book that was written by author John DiConsiglio and it was published in 2007, as a response to the appearing pandemics of such diseases as Mad Cow Disease and Bird Flu, which were affecting human populations and were generating panic in people. This book presents not just the diseases, but also the cases, the descriptions and the treatments for each of them. One of the arguments used by the author in his book, is based on the case of the Spanish flu, which decimated the Eurpean population after World War I, as very few other diseases had ever done in history. Also, there was the argument that the illness attacked the population without any warning, and after such a terrible military conflict. Given these issues, using the information that the Spanish flu became the deadliest pandemic of the last 100 years gives power to the argument that scientist need to keep studying the disease because no one wants a repeat of such a situation, which explains the need for more research to prevent it from happening again.