Spanish Flu
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New downtown exhibit compares Winnipeg’s COVID-19 response to the Spanish FluA new exhibit in downtown Winnipeg is comparing the city's response to the COVID-19 virus in 2020 to the Spanish Flu that spread across the world in 1918.HealthMar 26, 2023
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‘Far from over’: What past pandemics can tell us about ending COVID-19On the second anniversary of COVID-19 being characterized as a pandemic, we take a look some previous global health outbreaks and how they were brought under control.HealthMar 11, 2022
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Haunting on Leon Avenue: Kelowna historian offers up ghostly tale'The spirit appears to have been somewhat timid and has lurked about outbuildings and courts in preference to coming into the lighted stores and dwellings.'CanadaOct 31, 2021
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COVID-19 has killed as many Americans as the Spanish fluCOVID-19 has now killed about as many people in the U.S. as the 1918-19 flu pandemic, experts say.HealthSep 20, 2021
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Coronavirus: Lessons from 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic for Ontario classrooms todayThe closure of Ontario schools had a significant impact on students of all ages during the Spanish Flu pandemic.HealthFeb 10, 2021
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Melfort, Sask., resident didn’t let COVID-19 halt her 113th birthday celebrationsReita Fennell celebrated her 113th birthday on Friday. She is one of the longest living people in Canada.CanadaNov 22, 2020
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A father’s love in a pandemic: the Canadian WWI veteran who died of flu searching for son’s grave"I think the fact that he went over, because his sons were there, I think that might have just been a little icing on the cake," Eunice Robinson said.CanadaNov 9, 2020
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102 years of wisdom: Calgary man shares his story through ‘kindness-gram’"A kindness gram is a simple way to send a thank-you to someone."CanadaOct 9, 2020
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Trump blames Spanish Flu for ending Second World War — 2 decades laterDonald Trump mixed up his world wars and the year of the Spanish Flu in an error-filled comparison to the coronavirus.TrendingAug 11, 2020
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105-year-old Hamilton patient Ann Konkel grateful for thousands of birthday cardsA former Hamilton nurse, who celebrated her milestone birthday in mid-July, received cards from around the world.CanadaAug 11, 2020
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