Email By the Specialist Reporting Team’s Brad Ryan Updated March 07, 2020 13:01:40 Photo: A group of Brisbane nurses don face masks during the Spanish flu pandemic (State Library of Queensland) Related Story: The curious cases of COVID-19 that infected an Australian couple very differently Map: Australia As experts try to get a handle on how the coronavirus outbreak might play out, they are making comparisons to past outbreaks like SARS, MERS and swine flu.Some credible experts are even likening the COVID-19 outbreak to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.The WA head of the Australian Medical Association, Andrew Miller, recently said: “The truth is, we probably haven’t seen a virus like this one since 1918, with the Spanish flu.”And the Government’s health sector emergency response plan for coronavirus outlines several scenarios, the worst of which says, “the level of impact may be similar to that of the 1918 H1N1 ‘Spanish flu'”.It’s a grim comparison…Doctors commonly refer to the Spanish flu outbreak as “the greatest medical holocaust in history”.At the end of World War I, about 500 million people were infected with the H1N1 Spanish flu.”It left its mark on world history,” says University of Melbourne professor James McCaw, a disease expert… Read full this story
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