9 Crazy Old-Time Remedies That Were Used to Treat the Flu
The Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 brought with it a slew ... the flu “didn’t like.” According to a book about the pandemic, ...
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It
In that book the student of flu can find the primary ... by blocking the activity of the neuraminidase enzyme. When the Spanish flu pandemic hit, doctors around much of the globe were still ...
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Inside the swift, deadly history of the Spanish Flu pandemic
The outbreak of this influenza virus, also known as Spanish flu, spread with astonishing speed around the world, overwhelming India, and reaching Australia and the remote Pacific islands.
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Worldwide flu pandemic strikes
The influenza commonly called "Spanish flu" killed more people than the guns of World War I. Estimates put the worldwide death toll at 21,642,274. Some one billion people were affected by the ...
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From the Black Death to Spanish flu and smallpox, a brief history of plagues
No matter where you look up the meaning of the word “plague”, it’s never a good thing. It can be confusing, because as a verb, plague means “to cause continual distress”, yet as a noun ...
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Britain since c.1900 and the people's health - OCR B
A man spraying an anti-flu preparation on a London General Omnibus Co bus to try to kill the Spanish flu virus in London in 1920 Nobody is certain about the origins of Spanish influenza (usually ...