Black Flu At Opotiki?
Opotiki doctors are worried about a particularly bad type of influenza that has so far caused two deaths in that locality. The symptoms are not unlike those of poliomyelitis. First it hits the victim in the stomach. In extreme cases there is respiratory paralysis. Victims go black in the face. Two have died. It is unpleasantly reminiscent of the “black flu” that followed the 1914-1918 war. -
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 98, 22 September 1948, Page 5
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70Black Flu At Opotiki? Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 98, 22 September 1948, Page 5
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