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

M. Kemal Temel (Author)

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Volume: 37
Issue: 1
Pages: 195-231

DOI: 10.3138/cbmh.356-052019

URI: https://www-utpjournals-press.ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/doi/full/10.3138/cbmh.356-052019

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Public understanding of medicine Medicine and society Public health Pandemics Infectious diseases Prevention and control of disease Influenza 20th century, early Ottoman Empire Istanbul (Turkey)

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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