Spanish influenza

See also: Spanish Influenza

English

Alternative forms

• Spanish Influenza, Spanish flu, Spanish Flu

Etymology

Named after Spain, which reported on the spread of disease as a neutral state while most other countries fighting World War I impose censorship, leading to a mistaken impression that it was concentrated in Spain.

Noun

Spanish influenza (uncountable)

1. (pathology) 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.

   Synonym: purulent bronchitis

   • 1920, Oscar Jewell Harvey, The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918‎^[1], Pennsylvania: Wilkes-Barre, page 25:

     By systematic organization and effort we have been endeavoring to combat Spanish Influenza in Luzerne County, with its population of 350,000 souls.

Coordinate terms

• swine flu
• bird flu

Translations

influenza pandemic

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西班牙流感 (zh) (Xībānyá liúgǎn)

• Czech: španělská chřipka f
• Danish: spanske syge
• Dutch: Spaanse griep
• Esperanto: hispana gripo
• Estonian: Hispaania gripp (et)
• Finnish: espanjantauti (fi)
• Galician: gripe española f, gripo m
• German: Spanische Grippe (de) f
• Hungarian: spanyolnátha (hu)
• Icelandic: spænska veikin
• Japanese: スペイン風邪 (ja) (Supein kaze), スペインかぜ (ja)
• Portuguese: gripe espanhola f
• Russian: испа́нка (ru) f (ispánka)
• Spanish: gripe española (es) f, gripe de 1918 f, gripe de 18 f
• Swedish: spanska sjukan (sv)

See also

• heliotrope cyanosis
• H1N1

Further reading

• Spanish flu on Wikipedia.Wikipedia