2019
DOI: 10.1017/tam.2019.34
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The Spanish Flu and the Sanitary Dictatorship: Mexico's Response to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Abstract: The influenza of 1918, the disastrous global pandemic known to many as the Spanish Flu, could not have come at a worse time for Mexico. The nation was eight years into its decade-long revolutionary struggle, a conflict that claimed the lives of well over a million citizens. Of those lost, several hundred thousand perished due to the influenza alone, usually from secondary complications such as pneumonia or bronchitis. Along with exposure, famine, and a myriad of other wartime ailments, the 1918 flu ranked as o… Show more

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“…Latin America had kept itself at the margins of the military slaughtering of the war but was not immune to the spread of the pandemic. In Brazil 300,000 people are estimated to have died; in Chile more than 40,000, in Venezuela 25,000, in Buenos Aires anywhere between 15,000 and 30,000, and for Mexico estimates range as high as 450,000 -far more people died from the influenza than from the Mexican Revolution's combats (Alexander 2019).…”
Section: So Many Muertos So Few Memoriamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Latin America had kept itself at the margins of the military slaughtering of the war but was not immune to the spread of the pandemic. In Brazil 300,000 people are estimated to have died; in Chile more than 40,000, in Venezuela 25,000, in Buenos Aires anywhere between 15,000 and 30,000, and for Mexico estimates range as high as 450,000 -far more people died from the influenza than from the Mexican Revolution's combats (Alexander 2019).…”
Section: So Many Muertos So Few Memoriamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Using non-pharmaceutical measures to fight pandemics is not new. During the 1918 influenza, the Mexican government set up sanitary brigades (Alexander 2019 ) that went to each state establishing non-pharmaceutical behavioural protocols. These included health education and awareness campaigns, enforcing prescriptive regulations on public gatherings and personal mobility on trains.…”
Section: Non-pharmaceutical Strategies In Epidemic and Pandemic Fightmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Los primeros casos se reportaron a principios de octubre en pasajeros que desembarcaron en Veracruz de los navíos Alfonso XII procedente de La Habana y Manzanillo procedente de Nueva York; en Puerto México (hoy Coatzacoalcos), del buque Santa Alicia que llegó de Nueva Orleans, y en Tampico, del vapor Harold Walker que venía de Boston. [3][4][5][6] De forma paralela, la infección ingresó a México por la frontera norte. En las semanas iniciales de ese mes se reportaron miles de casos de influenza en Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Coahuila y Chihuahua.…”
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“…9 Los primeros casos en la Ciudad de México se presentaron la segunda semana de octubre en un cuartel situado en Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo. 3 De allí se esparció por toda la ciudad, primero por penitenciarías, orfanatorios y vecindades, y después de manera generalizada. Las autoridades de salud no le dieron la importancia debida.…”
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