Pandemic study of 1918-1919 outbreak provides background and death rates for 14 European countries

Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 09:49 in Health & Medicine

A French study of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, which analysed mortality rates in approximately three-quarters of the European population, has concluded that it is unlikely that the virus, often described as Spanish Flu, originated in Europe.

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