NEW FLU OUTBREAK IN FRANCE.
PARIS, April 26.—A new mjbrealf pf the influenza is reported from Central France, where numerous deaths have occurred, chiefly among soldiers in barracks. . At Orleans there have been more than a score of victims in the boys class of 1921 ; at Saint Etienne, ten of the Thirty-eighth Infantry Regiment and at AJbi,' tWi9 pf the Fifteenth Regiment as well as pjyilians have been smitten. Doctors at OrfclpftS believe that the disease is spread by yermin in the barracks. It is not generally known that *g“ grp.O.t epidemic of Spanish influenza, yv'bicV ravaged the world in 1918 and 1919, he gup the barracks of a small Spanish town eincyjg young conscripts mixed with troops fre/j? .a Spanish colony, who are supposed ,to have brought the disease with them. The epidemic spread so rapidly among the conscripts that the .authorities lost their heads apd se*ufc .them all Jiorne, thus propagating the malady throughout Sptfdfl, whence it spread oyer p)je world.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15543, 11 June 1921, Page 7
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163NEW FLU OUTBREAK IN FRANCE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15543, 11 June 1921, Page 7
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