Learning from the Spanish Flu – and it’s three waves
- At April 04, 2020
- By Heather
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Why studying history is important,and what we can learn from the Spanish flu epidemic 100 years ago – a pandemic that came in THREE waves. From the World War I museum:
Pandemic Then and Now
Lessons from the 1918 Influenza
by Nancy Bristow
As American soldiers mobilized for war in the spring of 1918, a handful of army physicians began noticing a worrisome influenza moving among their soldiers. Often resulting in a deadly pneumonia, it struck down previously healthy young men, sometimes with surprising rapidity. Post-mortem exams revealed soggy lungs with evidence of hemorrhaging. Beyond these limited military observations, though, few in the United States noticed that the first wave of a deadly influenza pandemic was underway.
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