Mapping the 1889-1890 Russian Flu-- In November 1889, a rash of cases of influenza-like-illness appeared in St. Petersburg, Russia. Soon, the “Russia Influenza” spread across Europe and the world. This outbreak is being researched by teams of Virginia Tech students as a case-study of the relationship between the spread of the disease and the spread of reporting about the disease. In this first of three posts, Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Nicholas Mehfoud, Veronica Kimmerly, and Marin Shipe, who look at geographical representations of the spread of the disease. During 1889 a global epidemic emerged from eastern Russia to encircle the globe. The National Library of Medicine has valuable resources illustrating the spread of this epidemic during its peak years. These documents also illustrate how health experts in the late nineteenth century and today document the spread of influenza across space and time. Flu Near You, Google Flu Trends, and CDC reports on ILI (influenza like illness) are some examples of current efforts to document the spread of disease using a variety of data sources. In the early 1890s, a team of international scholars produced a colorful and dense map showing the spread of the Russian flu in two-week time periods. For more, check out: circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2014/08/11/mapping-the-1889-1890-russian-flu/
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:24:52 +0000
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