The Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 in Russia. Questions a hundred years later
The course of the Spanish flu on the territory of the former Russian Empire is not well studied. This is due to the state of the medical statistics during the times of the Civil War. The medical data was collected more diligently by the Soviet Russia rather than by the officials of the White Army.Th...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:a2aa0bf021ce40908ee12a308c5311c7 2023-05-15T15:24:01+02:00 The Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 in Russia. Questions a hundred years later O. M. Morozova T. I. Troshina E. N. Morozova A. N. Morozov 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.36233/0372-9311-98 https://doaj.org/article/a2aa0bf021ce40908ee12a308c5311c7 RU rus Central Research Institute for Epidemiology https://microbiol.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/963 https://doaj.org/toc/0372-9311 https://doaj.org/toc/2686-7613 0372-9311 2686-7613 doi:10.36233/0372-9311-98 https://doaj.org/article/a2aa0bf021ce40908ee12a308c5311c7 Журнал микробиологии, эпидемиологии и иммунобиологии, Vol 98, Iss 1, Pp 113-124 (2021) history of the spanish flu pandemic influenza a/h1n1 virus russian civil war medical statistics Microbiology QR1-502 article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.36233/0372-9311-98 2022-12-30T22:17:02Z The course of the Spanish flu on the territory of the former Russian Empire is not well studied. This is due to the state of the medical statistics during the times of the Civil War. The medical data was collected more diligently by the Soviet Russia rather than by the officials of the White Army.This article discusses the timeline, symptoms, morbidity and mortality of the Spanish flu. The materials used in this article were obtained from the regional hospital archives, printed publications, and personal memoirs.The virus of the Spanish flu has initially entered the territory of Russia at the end of August of 1918 through the demarcation line with the German army at the temporary western border defined by the Treaty of Brest. In the beginning of September the virus was carried out by the Allies army through the ports of Murmansk and Arkhangelsk. In the European part of Russia, the outbreak started around September–November of 1918. So far, there is not enough data regarding pandemic flu in Siberia and Far East region of Russia. The unknown illness that undermined the combat capability of the 11th Red Army at the end of the fall of 1918 was likely of viral etiology. There was no evidence found that pandemic flu in Russia had high mortality.The possible correlation between atypical malignant nature of typhus and relapsing fever, the epidemics of which began in the fall of 1918, and the previous exposure of the population to the influenza virus has been hypothesized. Another hypothesis under discussion is about the possible correlation between outbreaks of the malaria and measles and subsequent susceptibility to the pandemic Spanish flu virus. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arkhangelsk Siberia Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Murmansk Journal of microbiology, epidemiology and immunobiology 98 1 113 124 |
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The course of the Spanish flu on the territory of the former Russian Empire is not well studied. This is due to the state of the medical statistics during the times of the Civil War. The medical data was collected more diligently by the Soviet Russia rather than by the officials of the White Army.This article discusses the timeline, symptoms, morbidity and mortality of the Spanish flu. The materials used in this article were obtained from the regional hospital archives, printed publications, and personal memoirs.The virus of the Spanish flu has initially entered the territory of Russia at the end of August of 1918 through the demarcation line with the German army at the temporary western border defined by the Treaty of Brest. In the beginning of September the virus was carried out by the Allies army through the ports of Murmansk and Arkhangelsk. In the European part of Russia, the outbreak started around September–November of 1918. So far, there is not enough data regarding pandemic flu in Siberia and Far East region of Russia. The unknown illness that undermined the combat capability of the 11th Red Army at the end of the fall of 1918 was likely of viral etiology. There was no evidence found that pandemic flu in Russia had high mortality.The possible correlation between atypical malignant nature of typhus and relapsing fever, the epidemics of which began in the fall of 1918, and the previous exposure of the population to the influenza virus has been hypothesized. Another hypothesis under discussion is about the possible correlation between outbreaks of the malaria and measles and subsequent susceptibility to the pandemic Spanish flu virus. |
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