Spanish influenza

短语

[医] 西班牙流感

别名

Spanish flu Spanish Influenza

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A form of influenza that spread to nearly every part of the world in a pandemic between 1918 and 1920, killing from 20 to 100 million people.

    西班牙流感

    不可数 医学

词源

Named after Spain, which reported on the spread of disease as a neutral state while most other countries fighting World War I impose censorship, leading to a mistaken impression that it was concentrated in Spain.

来源：wiktionary