Coronavirus, the first cases of which were discovered in the
city of Wuhan in December 2019, continues to spread across the globe. So far
more than 7.5 lakh cases of infection and 33 thousand more deaths have been
registered. The Corona positive cases and deaths goes up day by day around the
world. Especially Europe and United States of America are the great sufferers
now. Panicky rumours are circulating on the Internet that over a thousand
people are dying in Wuhan. At the Chinese border, Russians are refusing to work
with goods from China because they believe they're infected. They are taking
precautions at every level, and as a result prices are going up and business is
going down. A dictatorship may be perfectly positioned to enforce a
quarantine.CORONAVIRUS' epicentre is known to be Wuhan, a Chinese province -
but an unearthed report claims the Spanish Flu pandemic may have originated in
China more than a century ago, too.The Spanish flu is one of the worst has
killed more than 100 million people maximum in 1918. The flu by positing that
it developed first in Europe’s trenches. It began in the trenches or ended up
there after the arrival of American troops, the virus spread quickly to German
soldiers and to neutral Spain. Spain to erroneously think that it was alone in
enduring such a brutal outbreak — hence the name `Spanish flu.` Russian POWs
returning from Germany spread the disease to the newly created Soviet Union,
and by May and June, various countries in Africa, as well as India, China, and
Japan, all had outbreaks. In particular, had more brutal effects than typical
influenza, not least because it was likelier than the ordinary flu to be joined
by bacterial pneumonia. caused most of the deaths in the 1918 flu
outbreak.While today countries keep detailed records of testing and diagnosis
for new outbreaks (as they’ve been doing during the coronavirus crisis), there
was no such record-keeping capacity in the late 1910s.
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