![\\"logo\\"](\\"/img/logo-dpa-factchecking.svg\\"/) * WhatsApp service * About Us ![\\"IFCN](\\"/img/ifcn-certificate.png\\"/) ![\\"EFCSN](\\"/img/efcsn- certificate.png\\"/) # Spanish flu was not caused by vaccinations October 7, 2020, 2:30 p.m. (CEST) In the discussion about the coronavirus and vaccinations, false statements are repeatedly made Claims about previous pandemics spread. One of them is: The “Spanish flu” around 100 years ago was not contagious - Back then, vaccinations would have led to millions of deaths. EVALUATION: The claims are false and contradict the scientific findings on the Spanish flu. FACTS: On Facebook, among other places, opponents of vaccination are spreading the claim that they are not Viruses, but vaccinations would have started at the time of the Spanish flu 1918 led to millions of deaths worldwide (archived here). One indication given on Facebook is that the Spanish flu is not happening spread from one place, but, so the claim goes, “in many places and on different continents at the same time” began. Actually is not known exactly where the pandemic originated. The oft-quoted origin The term, as described in the Facebook post, only refers to the The fact is that the press in Spain, unlike many others countries were able to report relatively freely about the disease. Its spread occurred during the First World War. The US The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports a timeline of cases below American soldiers in March 1918 and points out that Hundreds of thousands of them went to war in Europe - a possible Path of propagation. However, that the diseases, like on Facebook and in anti-vaccination publications claims to have occurred decentrally and possibly through simultaneous vaccinations There is no evidence that it was triggered in various places around the world. On the one hand, there is no evidence to support the claim that vaccination itself caused millions of deaths. During the pandemic, assumptions came that the illnesses were caused by viruses and not bacteria. The virus and antibodies could only be isolated more than ten years later become. Vaccines used during the pandemic are in review Nothing known, like the Paul Ehrlich Institute for Vaccines and biomedical drugs in response to a dpa request. On the other hand, the claim that vaccinations against “plague, typhus, Pneumonia and smallpox were the cause of the spread of the Spanish It was the flu and “only vaccinated people” fell ill with it nothing proven. Vaccination opponents repeatedly cite descriptions of this Contemporary witnesses whose content and authenticity cannot be verified and who cannot be generalized. The same applies to alleged infection experiments as evidence of this Claim that the Spanish flu was “not contagious”. Like that Robert Koch Institute writes in an explanatory text that it was the case The causative agent of the Spanish flu is an influenza virus of type A (subtype H1N1). The transmission routes for influenza are similar to those in the current corona virus. Pandmie: People mainly get infected via droplet infection respiratory tract. Also aerosols, i.e. suspended particles containing viruses, and contact with them Hands with contaminated surfaces and then nose or mouth transmit the pathogens. \--- Left: Post on Facebook: (archived: Origin of the term “Spanish flu”: (archived: CDC timeline: resources/1918-commemoration/pandemic-timeline-1918.htm (archived: Essay on the isolation of the influenza A virus: (archived: “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” about opponents of vaccination: swine flu conspiracy-1840356.html?printPagedArticle=true#pageIndex_3 (archived: Robert Koch Institute on influenza pandemics: (archived: dpa fact check on the Spanish flu: factchecking.com/germany/200821-99-256990/ \--- Contact the dpa fact check team: faktencheck@dpa.com powered by dpa-newslab | Imprint | Privacy | About:
In the discussion about the coronavirus and vaccinations false claims about previous pandemics are repeatedly spread One of them is that the Spanish flu around 100 years ago was not contagious but vaccinations back then led to millions of deaths