US EditionWhat Lasting Impact Did the 1918 Flu Have on Medicine and Society?
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What lasting impact did the 1918 flu have on medicine and society?
The Spanish flu (so-named because the Spanish press openly reported on the outbreak while other World War I belligerents suppressed the news) broke out in March 1918 at Camp Funston, an army camp in Kansas, and struck young, healthy adults with greater ferocity than any other demographic group. Occurring in three waves (March-September 1918, September-December 1918, Spring-Summer 1919) and affecting...
The Vaudian historian published an extensive study on the Spanish flu which, in 1918, caused the deaths of thousands of Swiss. The measures taken at the time were little or no the ones adopted in 2020 during the covid pandemic "For the first time in Swiss history, social, cultural, religious, political and economic life slows down in the name of public health [...] most cantons introduce relatively extensive prohibitions of assembly [...] the fl…
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