Between 1918 and 1920, Australian newspapers were flooded with Spanish flu cures of all kinds. In October 1918, a journalist at Victoria's Bendigo Independent lamented: "Cures?

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In 1918, the Spanish flu killed more than 50 million people around the world. The lessons of that outbreak could save countless lives in the fight against the coronavirus.

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The idea is biologically plausible and historically grounded — and it reframes how we think about the origin of pandemics.

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And then, in the postwar period, even more death followed. In 1918, the H1N1 influenza known as the Spanish flu rapidly spread across the planet and affected over one-fourth of the global population.

Almost as soon as the coronavirus broke out, people started recommending all manner of bizarre “cures.” There was the man in Arizona, who tragically died on March 23, after consuming fish tank ...

Some questions remain about the origin of the 1918 flu pandemic, but there is plenty of evidence that it was caused by a virus.

Some of the remedies were not as bizarre as what Kenyan doctors prescribed during another global pandemic some 100 years ago.

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