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Spanish influenza
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Spanish Influenza
English
Alternative forms
en Spanish Influenza Spanish flu Spanish Flu
Etymology
Named after Spain, which reported on the spread of disease as a neutral state while most other countries fighting World War I impose censorship, leading to a mistaken impression that it was concentrated in Spain.
Noun
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en pathology A form of influenza that spread to nearly every part of the world in a pandemic between 1918 and 1920, killing from 20 to 100 million people.
en purulent bronchitis
en 1920 https://archive.org/details/0266067.nlm.nih.gov The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 Oscar Jewell Harvey Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania 25 By systematic organization and effort we have been endeavoring to combat Spanish Influenza in Luzerne County, with its population of 350,000 souls.
Coordinate terms
en swine flu
en bird flu
Translations
influenza pandemic
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 西班牙流感 Xībānyá liúgǎn
Czech: cs španělská chřipka f
Danish: da spanske syge
Dutch: nl Spaanse griep
Esperanto: eo hispana gripo
Estonian: et Hispaania gripp
Finnish: fi espanjantauti
Galician: gl gripe española f, gl gripo m
German: de Spanische Grippe f
Hungarian: hu spanyolnátha
Icelandic: is spænska veikin
Japanese: ja スペイン風邪 Supein kaze, ja スペインかぜ
Macedonian: mk шпански грип m
Polish: pl hiszpanka f
Portuguese: pt gripe espanhola f
Russian: ru испа́нка f
Spanish: es gripe española f, es gripe de 1918 f, es gripe de 18 f
Swedish: sv spanska sjukan
See also
en heliotrope cyanosis
en H1N1
Further reading
Spanish flu
en terms derived from toponyms
en Historical events Viral diseases