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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

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by Laura Spinney

Reza Khan, Shah of Persia 120, 242

  Riggs, Thomas 143, 145

  Rio de Janeiro 7, 49, 50–56, 139, 140, 202

  1919 Carnival 268

  RNA, flu 184–5, 190, 191

  Rockefeller, John D. 244, 246

  Rockefeller, John D., Jr 244

  Rockefeller Foundation 244–5, 246

  Rodrigues, Nelson 54

  Roediger, Henry L. and Abel, Magdalena: ‘Collective memory…‘ 292–3

  Rolland, Romain 136–7

  Romanticism 8, 25, 261, 262, 268

  Rome 20, 22, 198

  Lincean Academy 238

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., US President 41

  Roosevelt, Theodore, US President 74

  Rosenau, Milton 176–7, 180, 181

  Ross, Ronald: ‘theory of happenings’ 95–6, 279

  Rostand, Edmond 294

  Roth, Fritz 39

  Rouen, France 162

  Roux, Émile 97, 128, 178, 184, 238, 245

  Rowlatt, Justice Sidney 259

  Rowlatt, Act (1919) 259

  rubella 17

  Ruddiman, William 277

  Runitsch, Ossip 133

  Ruska, Ernst 184

  Russia/Russians 142, 154

  and Brest-Litovsk Treaty 38

  the Cheka 127

  and Chinese labourers 158

  doctors and scientists 67; see Bardakh, Yakov; Ivanovsky, Dmitri; Mechnikov, Ilya; Smorodintseff, A. A.; Zhdanov, V. M.

  flu epidemics 6, 22, 23, 27, 42–3, 67, 126, 166, 186, 195–6, 263

  flu mortality rates 167–9

  German prisoners-of-war 246

  health insurance 240

  music 261

  and Persia 43, 113, 116

  prisoners-of-war 38

  public healthcare system 241, 244

  Revolution (1917) 253

  see also Moscow; Odessa

  Rutenberg, Pinhas 133

  Sacks, Oliver: Awakenings 221–2

  St Helena 44

  St Petersburg 22, 43

  Salazar, Martín 63, 81

  Salk, Jonas 183

  Samoa: American 94, 221, 253; Western 94, 205, 221, 253

  Sancha y Hervás, Cardinal Ciriaco María, Primate of Spain 80

  Sand, George 28, 209

  San Francisco 101–2, 202

  ‘sanitary cordons’ 89, 90, 101, 137, 278

  Santiago, Chile 68

  Santos, Lúcia 78–9

  Sarabhai, Ambalal 256

  SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) 62

  satyagraha (non-violent protest) 254, 255, 256, 259

  Save the Children Fund 245, 246

  Schiele, Egon: The Family 58–9, 76–7, 229

  Schönberg, Arnold 261

  schools 96, 97–8, 130, 155, 281

  in America 104, 108–9, 111, 205

  Schultz, Theodore 215

  seals 197

  Seidl, Carlos 53

  Selter, Hugo 179, 181

  Senegal 64, 253

  see also Dakar

  serum 181

  Sforim, Mendele Mocher: Tales of Mendele the Book Peddler 131, 135

  shamans 126, 233

  Shanghai, China 69

  Shanks, Dennis 204

  Shansi (Shanxi), China 68–74, 156, 157, 158, 160, 161, 164, 170, 189

  Shantung (Shandong), China 156, 158, 159, 251

  Shaw, George Bernard: The Doctor’s Dilemma 234

  Shensi (Shaanxi), China 170

  ‘shift events’ 27, 185, 197, 262, 263, 268

  Shirakaba (White Birch) literary society 264

  Shope, Richard 181, 182

  Shoulder Arms (film) 105

  Sicily 20, 198

  Siegler, Mark see Brainerd, Elizabeth

  Sierra Leone see Freetown

  silkworms, diseased 210

  ‘sleepy sickness’ 220–21

  Slemons, Richard 188

  smallpox 16, 19, 21, 43, 53, 62, 70, 92, 232

  vaccine 268

  Smith, Wilson 181

  smoking: as protection against flu 123, 236

  Smorodintseff, A. A. 183

  Snow, John 27

  Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr 30

  Soto, Hernando de 22

  South Africa 7, 8, 41, 204, 222–7

  AIDS 283

  British concentration camps 245–6

  Ciskei region 222, 223–4

  Kimberley diamond mines 77–8, 204, 223

  Land Act (1913) 223

  Natives (Urban Areas) Act (1923) 283

  orphans 231

  Rand gold mines 77–8, 204, 225

  vaccination programmes 101

  see also Cape Town

  South America 41

  see also Argentina; Brazil; Chile; Peru

  Spain 22, 38, 63–4, 94–5, 165, 252–3

  flu mortality rates 202

  health system 244–5

  writers 267–8

  see also Alfonso XIII; Zamora

  Spanish-American War (1898) 80

  ‘Spanish flu’ 27, 31, 32, 291

  after-effects 24, 216–19, 220, 228, 229–30, 263, 264, 265, 283

  causes 66–7, 177, 180–82, 197–9

  and encephalitis lethargica 220–22

  and gene sequencing 189–91, 193, 283

  genetic component 207–10, 293

  and global warming 277–8

  mortality rates 4, 5, 6–7, 166–71, 187–8, 193, 195, 201–9, 215, 216, 217, 291, and see specific countries

  name 61–5

  origins and spread 37–8, 40–43, 45, 164–5, 188–9, 193–4, 196–200

  RNA 184–5, 191

  symptoms 46–9, 66, 73, 157, 192, 193

  transmission 180, 275–6

  types and subtypes 182, 184–6, 195–6, 276, 278, 282

  see also flu

  spiritualism 237

  sport 8, 235, 236

  Stalin, Joseph 252

  Standard Oil 244

  Starko, Dr Karen 122

  Steczkowski, Jan 42

  Stefansky, Dr Vyacheslav 126, 129, 132, 168

  Stella, Antonio 106–8, 111

  Stella, Joseph 106

  Stravinsky, Igor 261

  strikes 225, 253, 260, 292

  strychnine 123

  Surat, India 257, 258, 259

  Sverdlov, Yakov 252

  Sweden: poorhouses 229–30

  ‘swine flu’ 61, 181, 182, 186, 199–200, 280

  Switzerland 8, 40, 48, 123, 249, 250, 253

  Sword of the Spirit (periodical) 236

  syphilis 124, 144

  Syracuse, Sicily 20, 198

  Szilard, Leo 43–4

  Szymanowski, Karol 265–6

  King Roger 265

  Tagore, Rabindranath 260, 262, 270

  Taiyuan, Shansi, China 170, 189

  Takashi, Hara 43

  Talmud, the 5

  Talune, SS 205, 253

  Tamasese Lealofi, High Chief Tupua 253

  Tanna, Vanuatu archipelago 21

  Tanzania 136, 220

  Taubenberger, Jeffery 190, 191–4, 196, 199, 275, 281, 283

  Taylor, A. J. P. 260

  TB see tuberculosis

  Tehran 112, 114, 116, 118, 119, 120

  Pasteur Institute outstation 245

  Teresa of the Andes, St 68

  Thailand 75

  Thames, River 27–8

  Thomas, John 288

  Thompson, James W.: ‘The aftermath of the Black Death and the aftermath of the Great War’ 291

  Thucydides 19

  Tientsin (Tianjin), China 38, 69

  Times, The 43, 234

  Tizengausen, M. M. 134, 167–8

  tobacco plants 27

  Togo 236

  Tokyo 99, 293

  Doctors’ Medical Association 138

  Tonga 205

  Toronto, Canada 198

  trachoma 144, 159

  Trans-Siberian railroad 43

  Transkeian Gazette 101

  Trotsky, Leon 252

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sp; Troyes, France 176, 177–8

  Trump, Donald, US President 229

  Tsingtao, China 159

  tuberculosis (TB) 16, 28, 128, 206, 216, 245

  in America 92, 105, 106, 107, 109, 112, 144

  in Austria 250

  cause 25, 209

  in China 70

  in Odessa 168

  and writers 262, 263, 265

  Tumpey, Terrence 191

  Tunis: Pasteur Institute outstation 179

  typhoid 70, 114, 128, 135, 168

  vaccine 177

  typhus 20, 29, 43, 67, 68, 114, 117, 119, 130, 169, 245

  Uganda 61

  Ukraine 76, 168–9

  see also Kiev; Odessa

  Unalaska Island/Unalaska 143, 145, 146, 148

  Unalga (ship) 144–5, 146–7, 148

  Unamuno, Miguel de 267

  United Nations 246

  United States of America 22, 37, 99, 101, 121, 138

  African Americans 203–4

  AIDS 78

  alternative medicine 235

  American-Indian wars 30

  epidemiology 241–2

  eugenicists 29

  flu mortality rates 169, 201, 205, 231–2

  health insurance 243

  life insurance 229

  national health survey 241–2

  public health measures 281–2

  writers 262, 264, 265, 266

  see also Alaska; Kansas; New York City; United States Army

  United States Army 110

  living photographs 286–7, 289

  World War I recruits 30–31, 37, 241–2

  World War II recruits 183, 217–18

  Uruk 19, 21

  Uttar Pradesh, India: flu mortality rates 270

  vaccination/vaccines 25, 53, 98, 101, 128, 175, 235

  cowpox 98

  flu 178, 181, 183, 209, 238, 257–8, 280–81, 283, 294

  pneumonia 176

  polio 183

  polyvalent 183

  rabies 98, 128

  smallpox 53, 268

  typhoid 177

  Vancouver Island 159

  VanStone, James 149

  Vanuatu archipelago 21, 232

  Vaughan, Private Roscoe 190, 283

  vegetarianism 206–7, 236

  venereal diseases 124, 144, 242, 263

  Venice: quarantine 90

  Veronej (troopship) 41, 204

  Versailles, Treaty of (1919) 251

  Vienna 124, 249–50

  Belvedere Museum 238–9

  International Committee of the Red Cross 245

  University Great Hall 234

  ‘viral sex’ 185

  virology 238

  viruses 17, 18, 26–7, 66–7, 177, 179, 181, 182, 192, 196–7

  flu 184–6, 187–95, 199–200, 210

  Vittorio Veneto, Battle of (1918) 44

  Wajda, Andrzej 229

  Wangchiaping, China 72, 73, 156

  wars 23, 25–6, 290, 292, 293

  American—Indian wars 29–30

  Anglo-Boer Wars (1899–1902) 225, 245

  Hundred Years War (1337–1453) 290

  Spanish-American War (1898) 80

  see also World War, First and Second

  Warsaw, Poland 42

  Washington DC 198, 202

  Watson, Percy 71–4, 156, 170

  Weber, Max 45

  Weimar Republic 243

  Weskoppies lunatic asylum, Pretoria 226

  whales 197

  WHO see World Health Organization

  Wilhelm II, Kaiser 3, 4, 39–40, 44

  Williams, Anna 176, 177

  Williams, William Carlos 138, 262

  Wilson, Woodrow, US President 104, 105, 111, 250–51, 286–7, 289

  Wiser, Charlotte Viall 206–7

  witch doctors, Indian 125

  Witwatersrand gold mines, South Africa 77–8, 204, 225

  Woman Who Invented Love, The (film) 129, 135

  Woodruff, Alice 182

  Woolf, Virginia 265; Mrs Dalloway 263; On Being Ill 263

  WorldCat 290–91

  World Health Organization (WHO) 61–2, 246, 279, 280

  World War, First 4–5, 8, 29, 44, 75, 261, 262

  American entry 30, 37, 103

  armistice 93, 102, 133, 294

  books on 290–91

  and Chinese labourers 157–8

  deaths 4, 6, 166, 202, 268

  effects of flu 37–8, 39, 40, 63, 171, 194–5, 247–9, 261–2, 294

  and fertility rates 216

  and India 254–5

  see also British, French and German Army

  World War, Second 8, 246, 252

  American recruits 183, 217–18

  deaths 4, 167

  Worobey, Michael 197, 198

  Wright, Sir Almroth 177, 234

  Wu Lien-teh (Wu Liande) 154–7, 160, 164, 175, 242, 245

  Xhosa, the 222, 223, 224, 226

  Yaponchik, Misha 127, 130, 135

  Yeats, W. B. 43

  Yen Hsi-shan (Yan Xishan) 70–71, 74, 156

  Young India (newspaper) 260

  Yuan Shikai 70

  Yupik, the 7, 140, 141–2, 144, 148, 149, 233, 292

  Zabecki, David: The German 1918 Offensives 248

  Zambia: Anglo American mining company 230

  Zamora, Spain 7, 79, 80, 81, 82–5, 95, 205

  Zhdanov, V. M. 168

  Ziegler, Philip: The Black Death 228, 290, 291

  Zika virus 61

  Zimbabwe 64

  Zweig, Stefan: The World of Yesterday 249

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