Spanish influenza
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Etymology
Named after Spain, which reported on the spread of disease as a neutral state while most other countries fighting World War I impose censorship, leading to a mistaken impression that it was concentrated in Spain.
Noun
Spanish influenza (uncountable)
- (pathology) A form of influenza that spread to nearly every part of the world in a pandemic between 1918 and 1920, killing from 20 to 100 million people.
- Synonym: purulent bronchitis
- 1920, Oscar Jewell Harvey, The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918, Pennsylvania: Wilkes-Barre, page 25:
- By systematic organization and effort we have been endeavoring to combat Spanish Influenza in Luzerne County, with its population of 350,000 souls.
Coordinate terms
Translations
influenza pandemic
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See also
Further reading
Spanish flu on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
