Very nice article.
Thank you , dear Edgar !
As far as I could hear in our extended families there was no Spanish Flu
epidemic in Czernowitz and Romania. WW1 brought a lot of other Tsures :
Typhus in the Rumanian Army, Malaria among the Austrian soldiers in Italy,
Tuberculosis among many refugees in Austria and Bohemia. Etc...
Haptschüh!
Wishing Gezundhait to All !
Irene
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[mailto:bounce-124757129-3499296_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Edgar
Hauster
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2020 10:15 AM
To: Stephen Winters
Cc: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] 1918 Flu
Dear Stephen,
Please let me give a response to your question by going back in time for
exactly 102 years and quoting from Czernowitzer Allgemeine Zeitung,
7-Jul-1918 edition, now available at our Ehpes Blog:
http://ehpes.com/blog1/?p=10937
"Spanish flu or Influenza?
The mysterious disease with its many names is on everyone’s lips, or better,
in everyone’s – noses, because it is probably only about influenza and
sniffles, as is only too understandable in this strange summer. Admittedly,
one can almost speak of an epidemic, if not in Czernowitz, where influenza
is circulating too, but in many other cities: in Vienna it is on the rise,
and there are also reports from Germany, namely Berlin, Munich, Dresden,
Mannheim and Karlsruhe, of an increase in “Spanish flu”. The epidemic, whose
name and origin has not been properly identified, seems to have originated
in Spain and from there it has spread to the whole of Europe. No matter how
the disease is called, whether it is flu or influenza or a “Spanish
disease”, there is no reason for concern. You can call it annoying, but it
is not dangerous. Probably the bacillus that causes so much turmoil all over
the world is an old acquaintance, the influenza bacillus, and one may,
without fear, if it applies, answer the question “Have you got it yet?” by a
liberating Achoo!"
It's hard not to draw a parallel between Now and Then? Additionally please
check Harieta Mareci-Sabol's article "Under the Threat of Disease •
Introduction to a Historical Study of the Great Epidemics in Austrian
Bukovina":
http://atlas.usv.ro/www/codru_net/CC19/2/epidemics.pdf
Edgar Hauster
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<bounce-124756567-8322570_at_list.cornell.edu> on behalf of Stephen Winters
<drstevewin_at_gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 21:51
To: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
Subject: [Cz-L] 1918 Flu
Is anyone aware of historical information about the 1918 flu pandemic in
Czernowitz ?[Stephen Winters]
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