Windpipe Damage Caused By Spanish Flu
by National Library Of Medicine/science Photo Library
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Windpipe Damage Caused By Spanish Flu
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National Library Of Medicine/science Photo Library
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Illustration of a section through the trachea (windpipe) of a patient that died of Spanish flu. It shows necrotising haemorrhagic inflammation of the mucosa. The 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, which occurred in several waves between 1918 and 1920, infected one fifth of the world population and killed between 20 and 50 million, more than had been killed in the First World War. The second wave of the pandemic, from August 1918, was much deadlier than the first, with high mortality rates among young healthy adults. Illustration from 'The Pathology of Influenza' by M. C. Winternitz, Isabel M. Wason and Frank P. McNamara (1920).
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October 7th, 2019
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