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Excerpts from History: Then and Now

Excerpts from History: Then and Now

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“He diagnosed the disease as Influenza. But he has never seen Influenza like this. This was violent, rapid in its progress through the body, sometimes lethal. This Influenza killed. Soon dozens of his patients – the strongest, the healthiest, the most robust people in the county – were struck down as suddenly as if they had been shot”   “All Influenza viruses mutate constantly”   “On September 27, the day before the parade, hospitals admitted 200 people sufferings from Influenza….

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Egon sketched this drawing of his dying Edith Schiele as he lay dying himself of Influenza in 1918
Indian Dispatches from 1918 Pandemic

Indian Dispatches from 1918 Pandemic

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1918 Pandemic Great Influenza 1918 was the year of the great influenza which spread all over the world leading to estimated death of 50 million people worldwide and of this the country that was most affected was India that had alteast one-fifth of this death toll. In the history of world of pandemics there are only two which have taken more lives than this pandemic. The plague of Justinian that lasted for fifty years around AD 542 killed 100 million…

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Learn from Patient 31 of South Korea: Super Spreader Covid-19

Learn from Patient 31 of South Korea: Super Spreader Covid-19

Covid-19 has been declared pandemic by WHO quite sometime back. The problem with Covid-19 is it’s easy spread from person to person transmission. The so called Patient 31 of South Korea is a most potent example of this kind transmission. The person who is said to be 60 year old without any history of travel to China got flu like symptoms and was advised for Corona virus test. She seems to have denied going to test for few days and…

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