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This has led to speculation that the Spanish flu pandemic originated in China, [192] [193] as the lower rates of flu mortality may be explained by the Chinese population's previously acquired immunity to the flu virus. [176] [192] In the Guangdong Province it was reported that early outbreaks of influenza in 1918 disproportionately impacted ...
Loring Miner was born in 1860 in Kansas. [2] He graduated from Ohio University. [2] [3] He received his M.D. from Columbus Medical College, in 1886. [4] He was also self taught in ancient Greek and could easily read classics in the original language. [5]
Spanish flu research ... One theory by Alfred W. Crosby is that the virus strain originated at Fort Riley, Kansas, ... researchers at University of Virginia and ...
Pandemic: It’s a scary word. But the world has seen pandemics before, and worse ones, too. Consider the influenza pandemic of 1918, often referred to erroneously as the “Spanish flu ...
The 1918 influenza pandemic has been declared, according to Barry's text, as the 'deadliest plague in history'. The extensiveness of this declaration can be supported through the following statements: "the greatest medical holocaust in history" [2] and "the pandemic ranks with the plague of Justinian and the Black Death as one of the three most destructive human epidemics". [3]
Influenza viruses: You’re likely familiar with the seasonal flu, but in the last century there have also been four influenza pandemics: the infamous Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918, the H2N2 flu ...
Origin of the Spanish flu pandemic [ edit ] Historian John M. Barry concluded that Haskell County was the location of the first outbreak of the 1918 flu pandemic (nicknamed "Spanish flu"), which killed between 21 and 100 million people.
Cows at two dairy farms in Kansas tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday.