A university professor and two students recreated a virus identical to the one that caused the devastating 1918 Spanish Flu ...
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Why Is It Called Spanish Flu?
In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately. Young, old, sick and otherwise-healthy people all became infected — at ...
Experts believe older people who were infected by Spanish flu may have previously encountered ... by Public Health Canada which harvested news of the SARS outbreak as it showed itself in China.
Rhondda Leader Weekly newspaper columns described sudden flu ... "Millions of people have never heard about the Spanish 'flu. I only know because my mother told me about it; it's sad but my ...
In total, 675,000 Americans died from the Spanish flu, named after the disease's early presence in Spain. Today's outbreak of the novel coronavirus has sparked fear of another pandemic.
Late in the spring of 1918 the Spanish wire service Agencia Fabra sent cables of an unusual nature to Reuter's news service headquarters ... commonly called "Spanish flu" killed more people ...