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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Is anyone aware of historical information about the 1918 flu pandemic in Czernowitz ?[Stephen Winters]
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