Tag: Spanish flu
Why Russians name shoes, tools and weapons after foreign women
The Russian language, rich in metaphors, surprises many foreigners with the fact that some things are literally feminative of other nationalities. But don’t rush to accuse Russians of misogyny! It’s all about linguistic tradition. The complete coincidence of words denoting a representative of a nationality and an event (or object) is called “homonymy”. In our […]
Agnes Wold: We can count on getting a flurry of covid from time to time
Agnes Wold, professor of clinical bacteriology, tackles contemporary health issues together with program manager Christer Lundberg. Agnes Wold on covid-19 That’s how effective the vaccine is and so Agnes and Christer go through what we know about post-covid, how men and women are affected differently. And then we learn who had it worst: the cows […]
Authoritarian leaders slaughter covid-19 responses, leading to deaths
The World Health Organization (WHO) last week updated its report on redundant deaths from covid-19which highlights an extraordinary correlation between deaths and authoritarian leaders. It also highlights how well Australia handled covid-19 in both 2020 and 2021, although the deaths in covid-19 2022 are now increasing and significantly exceeding the deaths in 2020 and 2021. […]
Grandmother Hildegard was one of the largest illegal abortionists
This section: Hildegard Lagerlund was only 13 years old when she had to support herself. As a 19-year-old, she got a job as a housekeeper for a middle-aged couple. The wife in the family was ill and died soon, and Hildegard married the widower Oskar Lagerlund. In 1918, Oskar died of Spanish flu and Hildegard […]
Turku researchers are investigating possible Covid and mental illness connections
After the Spanish flu claimed the lives of an estimated 50 million people around the world just over a hundred years ago, the pandemic subsided in 1920. But soon after, mental health problems such as schizophrenia and depression increased significantly. survived the global epidemic. Now, in the midst of another pandemic, some researchers want to […]
Six big stories we can see in 2022 (and one I hope not)
From decisive choices to space races and the Winter Olympics to the World Cup, this year will be another full of twists and turns. Come 2022, come The Reckoning. After two years of the tedious pandemic, the tangled handling of it by public health officials around the world and endless demands for our individual freedoms, […]
Top 10: FRANCE 24’s most read stories from 2020
In a year when global headlines were dominated by the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s no surprise that the most read stories from 2020 were about coronavirus – from national lockdown strategies to long-term complications to hopes of a possible cure. Sweden’s Covid-19 strategy has caused a strengthening of the epidemic” Sweden is known as one of […]
From Iceland – Person of the Year 2020 at Grapevine: The Healthcare Worker
The year 2020 has been a very challenging year for all of us due to the pandemic pandemic and even a small island nation like Iceland has not been protected. Despite all the difficulties we have had to deal with, there is one person (or in this case the class of people) who proved his […]
“This is not a mass grave”
This week, the discovery was made of a mass grave with patients who died of the Spanish flu at Frösön’s mental hospital in Östersund. But now Maria Press, who is unit manager at the County Archives in Östersund, says that there is no evidence that it was a mass grave, and criticizes the media handling […]
Secret mass grave discovered on Frösön
A mass grave with around 50 bodies has been discovered in the western cemetery on Frösön in Östersund. These are patients from the state mental hospital Frösö hospital. – It is tragic in many ways because as I see it, there have been named but forgotten people who were not considered worth anything else. This […]
