Illustration relating to the influenza pandemic in Paris, from the cover of Le Petit Parisien, January, 1890: the interior of a special tent set up as a ward for the sick in the courtyard of the hospital. The 1889-1890 pandemic, often referred to as the Russian Flu, was one of the deadliest pandemics in history, killing one million people.

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