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Rosalia Lombardo (13 December 1918 – 6 December 1920) [1] was a Palermitan child who died of pneumonia, resulting from the Spanish flu, [2] one week before her second birthday. Rosalia's father, Mario Lombardo, grieving her death, asked Alfredo Salafia, an embalmer, to preserve her remains. [3]
Despite the high morbidity and mortality rates that resulted from the epidemic, the Spanish flu began to fade from public awareness over the decades until the arrival of news about bird flu and other pandemics in the 1990s and 2000s. [320] [321] This has led some historians to label the Spanish flu a "forgotten pandemic". [177]
Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world. [1] The group formed in New York City in 1985, born out of a picket against the Museum of Modern Art the previous year.
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The 1918–1920 flu pandemic is commonly referred to as the Spanish flu, and caused millions of deaths worldwide. To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany , the United Kingdom , France , and the United States .
A 9-year-old girl from Clermont County is the first child in the state to die from influenza-related complications in the 2023-2024 flu season, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
Born in November 1937 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tamara Bunke was the daughter of Erich Bunke and Nadia Bider. [1] [2] Nadia Bider Bunke, born in 1912, was a Russian communist who hailed from a Jewish family within the Russian Empire.
As a pediatrician, Dr. Cesar Termulo, 53, treats many children sick with the flu during the winter season. When his 16-year-old daughter, Teresa “Reese” Termulo, came down with the flu in ...