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In 1918, more than 20 million people died worldwide in a global influenza pandemic; the "Spanish flu" killed more than 3 times the number of people killed in World War I. Among those who died was one of the most outstanding Austrian Expressionists of the era, 28-year-old Egon Schiele, and his wife, Edith. Schiele died at the home of his mother-in-law on November 1, 1918, at 1 AM,^1(p187) during the second and most lethal wave of the epidemic. He was exposed while caring for Edith, who had contracted the flu at a local market and died just 3 days before him. At the time of her death, she was 6 months pregnant with their first child.

Unlike other influenza epidemics, those worst affected were in the prime of life (aged 15-45 years) like Schiele. Although little was known about this viral infection, its hemagglutinin gene has now been reassembled from . . . [Full Text of this Article]

James C. Harris, MD