Eyewitness accounts of the 1510 influenza pandemic in Europe.

Lancet · 2010

other · Level V

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Abstract

“On this day [July 13, 1510]…in Modena there appeared an illness that lasts three days with a great fever, and headache and then they rise…but there remains a terrible cough that lasts maybe eight days, and then little by little they recover and do not perish.”