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. 2010 Dec 4;376(9756):1894-5.
doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(10)62204-0.

Eyewitness accounts of the 1510 influenza pandemic in Europe

David M Morens, Michael North, Jeffery K Taubenberger

Eyewitness accounts of the 1510 influenza pandemic in Europe

David M Morens et al. Lancet. .

Abstract

“On this day [July 13, 1510]…in Modena there appeared an illness that lasts three days with a great fever, and headache and then they rise…but there remains a terrible cough that lasts maybe eight days, and then little by little they recover and do not perish.”

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