OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 48981

Spanish influenza

Meanings (ES + gloss)
gripe de • gripe de 1918 • gripe española
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.
By systematic organization and effort we have been endeavoring to combat Spanish Influenza in Luzerne County, with its population of 350,000 souls.
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