Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/301935 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP24/14
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
World War 1 exacerbated the cost of the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 in two ways. First, it facilitated the spread the flu virus through the movement of clusters of infected soldiers and sailors. Second, it constrained public health measures that would have reduced mortality (as during the Covid-19 epidemic). While there is no obvious way of estimating any resulting mortality, attributing even a modest share of the deaths caused by the flu to the war would significantly increase the civilian death toll.
Subjects: 
pandemic
influenza
World War I
JEL: 
N30
I18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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