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Sep 1, 2008 · On 22 May 1918, the epidemic was a headline in Madrid's ABC newspaper. The infectious disease most likely reached Spain from France, perhaps as the result of the heavy railroad traffic of Spanish and Portuguese migrant workers to and from France. The total numbers of persons who died of influenza in Spain were officially estimated to be 147,114 ...
- Antoni Trilla, Guillem Trilla, Carolyn Daer
- 2008
Jul 7, 2019 · Fig. 2. Influenza pandemics of the past 100 years. The 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic was caused by a founder H1N1 influenza A virus. The three subsequent pandemics of 1957, 1968, and 2009 (black arrows) were caused by descendants of the 1918 virus, which acquired one or more genes through reassortment (12).
- 10.1126/scitranslmed.aau5485
- 2019/07/07
Aug 31, 2018 · The symptoms were non-specific. The fever was unimpressive, ranging from 99 to 103°F. ‘The patient was prostrated, had severe headache, and complained of aching pains in the muscles of the back of the neck, of the lumbar region and at times of the arms and legs’. Some were sent to the meningitis ward due to the neck pain and fever.
- Margaret Humphreys
- 2018
Oct 12, 2010 · The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, the deadliest in history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide—about one‑third of the planet’s population—and killed an estimated 20 million ...
Jun 11, 2020 · While it is difficult to pinpoint the exact origin of the 1918 pandemic, one thing was certain. It did not start in Spain. Headlines proclaim the impact of the Spanish flu in Winnipeg on Oct. 26 ...
Mar 10, 2023 · The first reported cases of the Spanish Flu of the virus in Kansas were quite moderate. The Spanish flu took an ominous turn in the fall of 1918 when injured soldiers who contracted the Spanish flu returned to the United States, spreading the illness across urban and rural communities. During this period of the Spanish flu, the freemason lodges ...
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By examining the origins, pathways, demographic impact and consequences for the public, the medical profession and governments, of the so-called “Spanish” influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, this article establishes the main contours of the worst pandemic in modern history, which killed some 50 million people worldwide in eighteen months. In doing so, it also recognizes how closely this ...
