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As the article notes, most the deaths of the Spanish flu were due to the bacterial infections which subsequently emerged in the patients. These would be prevent
by DSingularity 7y ago
As the article notes, most the deaths of the Spanish flu were due to the bacterial infections which subsequently emerged in the patients. These would be prevented by modern antibiotics.
- jeltz 7y agoNot all of them. People die in the west even today from bacterial pneumonia caused by the flu.
- ethbro 7y ago"Not all of them" is a pretty odd spin on the difference of discovering Penicillin. The antibacterial drugs we have nowadays are fundamentally different than the whole lack thereof in 1918.
- blaser-waffle 7y agoThey sure do, but in small numbers. Mostly the old or infirm. A nasty flu virus like COVID will push those numbers but they're still outliers, doubly so with modern medicine.