Influenza, 1918.

BMJ

Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter EX2 5DW.

Published: December 2005

The worst recorded influenza outbreak took place in 1918, when my uncle, Dr Jules S Martin, was a young doctor in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Mozambique. This letter from his commanding officer gives an insight into the horror of the experience

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1322259PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.331.7531.1536DOI Listing

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