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	DOI:10.1017/mdh.2017.53

Corpus ID: 9057841Will It Come Here? Using Digital Humanities Tools to Explore Medical Understanding during the Russian Flu Epidemic, 1889–90
@article{Ewing2017WillIC,
  title={Will It Come Here? Using Digital Humanities Tools to Explore Medical Understanding during the Russian Flu Epidemic, 1889–90},
  author={E. Thomas Ewing},
  journal={Medical History},
  year={2017},
  volume={61},
  pages={474 - 477}
}
	E. Thomas Ewing
	Published 2017
	Medicine
	Medical History

On December 18, 1889, the Detroit Free Press asked an intriguing question in the headline: ‘Will It Come Here?’1 The ‘It’ in the headline was the so-called ‘Russian Flu’, an outbreak of influenza that was first noticed on a global scale in St Petersburg, the capital of Russia.2 As this disease spread across Europe, American medical authorities as well as the popular press expressed increasing concern about whether the disease would cross the Atlantic and reach the United States.3 To answer this… Expand

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