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With no cure for the flu, many doctors prescribed medication that they felt would alleviate symptoms… includingaspirin, which had been trademarked by Bayer in 1899—a patent that expired in 1917, meaning new companies were able to produce the drug during the Spanish Flu epidemic. ...
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Nancy K. Bristow, a University of Puget Sound history professor and author ofAmerican Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic, says the United States had been caught unprepared for the outbreak partly because advances in bacteriology made many Americans believe they could control in...
We also have to consider the number of iatrogenic deaths, or deaths by doctor. How many people were killed by panicked doctors cramming tubes down their gullets in the Great Ventilator Scare? In the Spanish Flu, huge swathes of citizens were rubbed out by forcing buckets of aspirin into them...
“Spanish flu.” By June influenza reached from Algeria to New Zealand. Still, a 1927 study concluded, “In many parts of the world the first wave either was so faint as to be hardly perceptible or was altogether lacking...and was everywhere of a mild form.” Some experts argued that ...
Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
businesses and farmers by raising import duties by more than 20%, leading to a loss of confidence in Wall Street and the fail of many overseas banks. It was widely considered a signal of U.S isolationism. [Pictured: Sen. Smoot and Rep. Hawley on the steps of the Capitol on Dec. 7,...
Public health officials worry that herd immunity may have been too successful for its own good. Because all children were immunized in the past, many parents today haven't seen the effects of a widespread polio epidemic or a measles outbreak, diseases that still prevail in countries where vaccin...
Viruses that normally occur in birds cause bird flu, and there are many different strains. Some of these viruses can pass from birds to other animals, and most of them are mild. However, there have been several human outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in Asia and Europe over the ...