Russian Flu, Victorian Anxieties

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

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One Response to “Russian Flu, Victorian Anxieties”

gsgs Says:
7 August, 2014 at 17:34 | Reply
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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