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5 days ago · A Nov. 6, 1918, headline in the Tucson Citizen describes the Spanish flu, which killed at least 50 million people worldwide. The Southern Pacific Railroad was required to examine incoming ...
1 day ago · Uncover the chilling tale of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic that shook the world. From its origins to global impact, learn about this forgotten history. #Span...
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4 days ago · Guy Beiner, Sullivan Chair of Irish Studies at Boston College, has published the edited volume Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten ‘Spanish’ Flu of 1918-1919 (Oxford University Press). Beiner, whose expertise is the history of remembering and forgetting in the late-modern era, has a long-standing interest in the Great Flu ...
1 day ago · 1918 influenza pandemic ('Spanish flu') 1918–1920 Worldwide Influenza A virus subtype H1N1: 17–100 million 1918–1922 Russia typhus epidemic: 1918–1922 Russia: Typhus: 2–3 million 1919–1930 encephalitis lethargica epidemic: 1919–1930 Worldwide Encephalitis lethargica: 500,000
2 days ago · The idea for a comparative history came from observations of the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic and then an examination into the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 to see what similarities could be found. The results of this research culminated in the three exhibits available on this site.
5 days ago · The phrase “Spanish influenza” appeared in the Arizona Daily Star for the first time on July 7, 1918 — a casual reference buried in a World War I dispatch from the front. It scarcely showed ...
2 days ago · An outbreak unfolds. The current variant of H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b began to cause problems at a global scale in 2020. While humans confronted the COVID-19 pandemic, H5N1, or “avian influenza,” began killing tens of thousands of seabirds in Europe before moving to South Africa.
