The influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 in Sri Lanka: its demographic cost, timing, and propagation

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Prior estimates of mortality from the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic in Sri Lanka range from 41 916 to 91 600. The Registrar-General for Ceylon reported 41 916 deaths due to influenza (excluding pneumonia and other complications) in 1918–1919. https://t.co/…

Certainly hope so and wish it would be! Yet, with the repeated blunders being done by ppl in/with power such as, delay in securing vaccines, the latest saga with Ukrainian tourists, I only hoped& pray for all of us in #SriLanka ! May his save the pe…

Sri Lanka lost 6.7% of its population to the flu pandemic in 1918-19. Hopefully we will do better in 2020-21 https://t.co/wMIwzol66O.

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