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El Gran Catharro de 1580 ¿gripe o pertussis?

Ramón Camaño PuigMariano Barriendos I VallvéFrancisco Faus Gabandé

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business.industrygripepertussis epidemictos ferinaGran Catharro (1580)VirologyGran Catharro de 1580lcsh:History of scholarship and learning. The humanitieslcsh:R131-687History and Philosophy of Sciencelcsh:History of medicine. Medical expeditionsAZ20-999lcsh:AZ20-999MedicineHistory of scholarship and learning. The humanitiesbusinessinfluenzaHistory of medicine. Medical expeditionsR131-687

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The gran Catharro (1580) is considered the first influenza epidemic. The analysis of various testimonies of the time may offer some doubts about whether or not it was so; and data strongly support that it was a pertussis epidemic.

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