"High aspirin dosing levels used to treat patients during the 1918-1919 pandemic are now known to cause, in some cases, toxicity and a dangerous build up of fluid in the lungs, which may have contributed to the incidence and severity of symptoms, bacterial infections, and mortality. Additionally, autopsy reports from 1918 are consistent with what we know today about the dangers of aspirin toxicity, as well as the expected viral causes of death."
Discussed here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2353572/posts
"That's a LOT of aspirin--between 25 and 80 325 mg tabs, or 16 to 65 Extra Strength (500 mg) tabs."
(pearls before swine)
Couple that with the research that speculated that mask use lead to bacterial pneumonia.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/bacterial-pneumonia-caused-most-deaths-1918-influenza-pandemic Tuesday, August 19, 2008
“High aspirin dosing levels used to treat patients during the 1918-1919 pandemic are now known to cause, in some cases, toxicity and a dangerous build up of fluid in the lungs, which may have contributed to the incidence and severity of symptoms, bacterial infections, and mortality. Additionally, autopsy reports from 1918 are consistent with what we know today about the dangers of aspirin toxicity, as well as the expected viral causes of death.”
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Fascinating. I wonder if it also caused Reye’s syndrome in some. I know it mostly affects teens if they have the flu, but still... I wonder. There are a lot of articles out there. I’ll peruse for my own curiosity.
It was the only thing they had, I believe.. poor people, were probably desperate and weren’t aware that aspirin was a contributor.
My grandpa’s first wife died from the Spanish Flu, leaving him with an infant daughter.
Petey