Once the Spanish flu pandemic was over, many of the cures remained. Most of them, like aspirin, incorporated the threat of influenza into regular advertising . Some, like quinine , have made a ...

Back in 1918, there was no widely available flu vaccine (1940s), no US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1946), no World Health Organization (1948) and no polio vaccine (1954). Related ...

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While quinine is used to treat malaria, people imagined it would cure the Spanish Flu in 1918. During that time a merchant noted that he had sold more quinine in one day than he had in the past ...

Bizarre Myths About the Spanish Flu. Harriet Hall, Science-Based Medicine June 20, 2017. U.S. Army. In the SBM comments section, someone recently posted this gem: That “Spanish flu” pandemic was ...

The Spanish flu had at least three stages — the worst coming in a 31-week period during which 20 million people died worldwide. From mid-September to October 31, 1918, some 30,000 people died in New ...

The “Spanish” flu of 1918 was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history. Seeming to come from nowhere in the waning days of World War I, it spread through a war-ravaged world like wildfire.

At the Spanish flu’s peak, in October 1918, people were dying in the city at the rate of 100 a day. “The procession of horse-drawn hearses seemed to continue endlessly,” he said. Most of the ...

The 1918 flu killed more than 50 million people. Now, some of the lessons from that pandemic are still relevant today – and could help prevent an equally catastrophic outcome with coronavirus.

The name “Spanish flu” has accompanied the 1918 pandemic ever since, largely because other countries were unwilling or uninterested in reporting on the outbreak within their own borders. We ...