Article ID: CBB539750154

The 1918 “Spanish Flu” Pandemic in the Ottoman Capital, Istanbul (2020)

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Although the general course, possible transmission routes, and actual sociodemographic destruction of the 1918 influenza pandemic in the Western world are well documented, the literature lacks similar data about the Middle East. On the calamity’s centenary, this article aims to contribute to filling this gap, investigating the presence and effects of the pandemic in Istanbul, the city bridging the West and East, then as the capital of the Ottoman Empire. After the retrieval of the most relevant articles in Vakit, a daily Istanbul newspaper active throughout the pandemic, a variety of items, including articles with firsthand pronouncements from contemporaneous medical authorities and a clinical account of supportive autopsy findings, are scrutinized and interpreted. The reviewed data are concluded to indicate no epidemiological or factual exception, showing significant parallelism with the Western experience of the pandemic in terms of increased influenza mortality and morbidity, severe clinical presentation, common misinformation and misdiagnosis, and failure to provide effective prevention and medical treatment.

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Authors & Contributors
Monique Santos
Lukáš Novotný
Valérie Tóthová
Věra Hellerová
Alibrandi, Rosamaria
Martin Červený
Concepts
Public health
Pandemics
Medicine and society
Influenza
Infectious diseases
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
20th century
16th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Sicily
Uruguay
Czechoslovakia
Québec (Canada)
London (England)
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