When Spanish Flu hit Britain

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When Spanish Flu hit Britain.

"Far too little, too late": what happened when Spanish Flu hit Britain?

A century ago, a devastating pandemic killed countless millions worldwide. But how did Britain cope when Spanish Flu reached its shores in 1918? Robert Hume says it was a tragic case of far too little, too late...

www.historyextra.com

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Pandemic - when the deadly,Spam,sh Flu arrived in Ireland through Cork.

Before the Coronavirus - when Spanish Flu arrived in Ireland through Cork

It was the worst pandemic to hit Ireland since the Black Death - and the first case was recorded in Cork just after the First World War

www.corkbeo.ie

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Inside the Swift, Deadly History of the Spanish Flu Pandemic

Inside the Swift, Deadly History of the Spanish Flu Pandemic

Before SARS and coronavirus, Spanish flu infected a third of the world’s population and killed as many as 50 million in the waning years of World War I.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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Forget the Coronavirus: The Flu Pandemic of 1918 Killed More People in One Year than all of World
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Forget the Coronavirus: The Flu Pandemic of 1918 Killed More People in One Year than all of World War I

And let's hope something like this never happens again.

nationalinterest.org

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Think Coronavirus Is Bad? The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918 Killed 50 Million People.

Think Coronavirus Is Bad? The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918 Killed 50 Million People

Including 675,000 Americans.

nationalinterest.org

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Think Coronavirus Is Bad? The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918 Killed 50 Million People.

Richard

One of them was my great uncle. He was a lieutenant in the British Army. He fought his way through the four years of World War I, only to die in France in November 2018 before he could be repatriated to Britain...another victim of the flu pandemic.