Health
Deadly impact of wet winters on WWI and Spanish flu victims – The Guardian
Scientists observe correlation between mortality rates and cold, moist conditions in 1914-18
A run of exceptionally wet winters led to more deaths during the first world war and amplified the impact of the Spanish flu, a study in Geohealth has revealed.
Analysis of sea salt from an ice-core in the Swiss-Italian Alps showed Europe experienced unusually strong influxes of cold, moist air from the North Atlantic between 1915 and 1919, bringing extreme levels of rainfall and chilly conditions.
This relentless period of miserable weather was a once in 100-year anomaly.
Alexander More, a climate…
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