It wasn't the treaty that Mike means, it was a 1922 proceedings of the International Sanitary Convention (the predecessor to WHO). It was an international body negotiating rules around infectious diseases from 1851 to 1948, and it never once concerned itself with influenza or even mentioned it in any proceedings.
It wasn't the treaty that Mike means, it was a 1922 proceedings of the International Sanitary Convention (the predecessor to WHO). It was an international body negotiating rules around infectious diseases from 1851 to 1948, and it never once concerned itself with influenza or even mentioned it in any proceedings.
Right, I remember your post. It doesn't mention influenza, but the texts that do mention influenza... do...
Mention of "influenza" in England+Wales death records declines linearly in the late 19th century, and then suddenly spikes in 1889/90, again in 1900, again in 1918, with baseline higher than the previous decline in between. This is consistent with adults in 1957 and 1968 having antibodies to swine flu (1918), Asian flu (1957/1889), and Hong Kong flu (1900/1968) according to whether they were alive in 1889, 1900, or 1918. This validated the historical records for flu from 1889 - 1919, which number in the thousands in military, civilian, and local government sources.
It wasn't the treaty that Mike means, it was a 1922 proceedings of the International Sanitary Convention (the predecessor to WHO). It was an international body negotiating rules around infectious diseases from 1851 to 1948, and it never once concerned itself with influenza or even mentioned it in any proceedings.
Right, I remember your post. It doesn't mention influenza, but the texts that do mention influenza... do...
Mention of "influenza" in England+Wales death records declines linearly in the late 19th century, and then suddenly spikes in 1889/90, again in 1900, again in 1918, with baseline higher than the previous decline in between. This is consistent with adults in 1957 and 1968 having antibodies to swine flu (1918), Asian flu (1957/1889), and Hong Kong flu (1900/1968) according to whether they were alive in 1889, 1900, or 1918. This validated the historical records for flu from 1889 - 1919, which number in the thousands in military, civilian, and local government sources.