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The 1889–1890 pandemic, often referred to as the "Asiatic flu" [1] or "Russian flu", was a worldwide respiratory viral pandemic.It was the last great pandemic of the 19th century, and is among the deadliest pandemics in history.
This is a timeline of influenza, briefly describing major events such as outbreaks, epidemics, pandemics, discoveries and developments of vaccines.In addition to specific year/period-related events, there is the seasonal flu that kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people every year and has claimed between 340 million and 1 billion human lives throughout history.
The 1977 Russian flu was an influenza pandemic that was first reported by the Soviet Union in 1977 and lasted until 1979. [1] [2] The outbreak in northern China started in May 1977, slightly earlier than that in the Soviet Union. [3] [4] The pandemic mostly affected a population younger than 25 or 26 years of age, [1] [5] [6] and was described ...
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1770–1772 Russian plague (part of the second plague pandemic) 1770–1772 Russia: Bubonic plague: 50,000 [113] 1772 North America measles epidemic 1772 North America Measles: 1,080 [114] 1772–1773 Persian Plague (part of the second plague pandemic) 1772–1773 Persia: Bubonic plague: 2 million [115] 1775–1776 England influenza outbreak ...
Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov's stream-of-consciousness bender "Petrov's Flu" follows a divorced comic artist on a hallucinatory journey
Andrey Vavilov, Russia's deputy finance minister between 1994 and 1997, said the Russian Federation held around $105 billion in Soviet-era debt at the end of 1992, with its own debt amounting to ...
The 1889–1890 pandemic, often referred to as the Asiatic flu [53] or Russian flu, killed about 1 million people [54] [55] out of a world population of about 1.5 billion. It was long believed to be caused by an influenza A subtype (most often H2N2), but recent analysis largely brought on by the 2002-2004 SARS outbreak and the COVID-19 pandemic ...