A Glimpse of Hell ; They Called It Spanish Flu and Worldwide, It Killed Millions. Now, for the First Time, the Full Horrific Story of What Happened in Ireland the Last Time We Faced a Pandemic [Eire Region]

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APATIENT, suffering at the time from a particularly severe attack, suddenly becomes alarmingly ill. The patient feels acute pain in the chest, the breathing becomes rapid and difficult. They cough up frothy bloody liquid, they become delirious and usually pass rapidly into a coma, and die within a few hours...

This devastating description was given by Dr George Peacocke at the height of the second epidemic of Spanish Flu, an outbreak which spread to around 800,000 people in Ireland. Of those who contracted the virus, some 2.5 per cent died.

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A Glimpse of Hell ; They Called It Spanish Flu and Worldwide, It Killed Millions. Now, for the First Time, the Full Horrific Story of What Happened in Ireland the Last Time We Faced a Pandemic [Eire Region]

Ninety years ago, the country was suffering the third wave in less than a year of what became known as the Spanish Flu, an outbreak that took hold in the closing months of World War I and one which, depending on which estimate you believe, may have killed many more worldwide, possibly up to 100 million, than the number that perished in that first global conflict.

As the world waits nervously to see if swine flu will officially be declared a pandemic, there are many st...

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