Today, The World Health Organization has declared the current outbreak of H1N1 influenza to be a pandemic, the first since 1968.
As early as over a century ago, in 1890s, the flu disease was already under serious investigation.
The item featured below, courtesy of Harvard University Library, Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 digital collection, is a full-text digitized version of a Julius Althaus’s 1892 book “Influenza: its pathology, symptoms, complications, and sequels, its origin and mode of spreading, and its diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment.”
Althaus, Julius. Influenza: its pathology, symptoms, complications, and sequels, its origin and mode of spreading, and its diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. London: Longmans, 1892.
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