Russian Flu, Victorian Anxieties

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Although we are now familiar with the sensationalist reporting of epidemics, in the 1890s with the outbreak of Russian Flu, this was a new phenomenon. 

Ed Rybicki‘s insight:

A very nice piece on a pandemic that almost no-one knows anything about any more – but which almost certainly had an influence on the 1918 pandemic, if only to reduce severity in those over 28 at the time who had been infected in 1890.

See on theibtaurisblog.com

One Response to “Russian Flu, Victorian Anxieties”

  1. gsgs Says:

    there are several theories …
    the most common one is, that 1889-flu was H3 and it
    killed the previous H1-flu, which in turn had given
    the immunity for 1918

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