La incidencia de la gripe de 1918 a escala localEl Valle del Esla
- 1 Universidad de Salamanca. Departamento de Economía e Historia Económica
ISSN: 2696-4325
Année de publication: 2020
Volumen: 38
Número: 3
Pages: 31-54
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Revista de Demografía Histórica-Journal of Iberoamerican Population Studies
Résumé
The current severe coronavirus pandemic brings to mind the terrible mortality caused by the 1918 influenza. This article explores how that epidemic affected a rural region in León and Zamora provinces of northwest Spain. Small towns were immersed in the disease with extremely limited remedies to combat it. Despite the years, medical advances and economic development, the situation today presents several parallels with the health crisis of a century ago.