Influenza
Influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 may have originated in China
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, January 10th, 2006
According to a recent report from England, "This article seeks to establish whether China, like most other countries, experienced an influenza outbreak in 1918-19 and to gauge its extent and severity.
"It evaluates the suggestion that the 1918-19 influenza virus originated in China and was carried to France by Chinese migrant workers during World War I."
"The investigation covers statistical and other materials for Hong Kong and Shanghai, nonstatistical materials for elsewhere in China, and British archival records relating to the recruitment and transportation to...
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