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  • proper noun pathology Alternative spelling of Spanish flu.

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Examples

  • Ironically, given the name Spanish Flu, Spain performed better than average.

    Pandemics and Depressions Jose F. Ursua 2009

  • So when Martin wants to blow this current flu off by saying there's simply no comparison to what is popularly known as the Spanish Flu, I'd say he should really stick to politics.

    Peace, order and good government, eh?: April 2009 Archives 2009

  • First, it is pretty clear that the Spanish Flu did not begin in Spain.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Pathetic 2009

  • Since the last dramatic antigenic shift was in 1918 with the Spanish Flu, which scientists now say emerged from avian populations, we are long, long overdue.

    Stopping a Flu Pandemic: Is King Xerxes Thrashing the Waves? 2009

  • Over 21 million people died from the Spanish Flu in 1918.

    Let the tree be purple. Ann Althouse 2009

  • We know that A/H1N1 has gene sequences from three different types (American, Asian, and African) of Swine Flu, of Bird Flu, of two different types of human seasonal flu, and of Spanish Flu and that such a recombination is so unlikely in nature as to be virtually impossible.

    Printing: BIOTERRORISM IN THE UKRAINE? 2009

  • The only country in Europe that provided information through their newspapers were the spanish ones, so the started to call it the Spanish Flu.

    Influenza: 1918 Spanish Flu Emma Lurie 2009

  • We know that A/H1N1 has gene sequences from three different types (American, Asian, and African) of Swine Flu, of Bird Flu, of two different types of human seasonal flu, and of Spanish Flu and that such a recombination is so unlikely in nature as to be virtually impossible.

    BIOTERRORISM IN THE UKRAINE? 2009

  • Some estimates say that as much as 1% of the world's population died from the Spanish Flu.

    Influenza: 1918 Spanish Flu Emma Lurie 2009

  • Additionally, as a backgrounder on your article, remember also a huge number of Americans had just perished both in WWI and the Spanish Flu epidemic, which likely emboldened the communists beliefs that discord needed only the wick to be lit, just as it did with the assassination of US President William McKinley in Buffalo, NY, on September 6, 1901 by a verifiable follower of communist Emma Goldman.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Original 9/11, Except it was on 9/16 2008

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