Leopard of Rudraprayag
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The Leopard of Rudraprayag was a male man-eating leopard that measured to about 228.6 cm long, reputed to have killed over 125 people. It was eventually killed by hunter and author Jim Corbett using a
Leopard of Rudraprayag after being shot by Jim Corbett in 1926
Spanish flu
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The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the misleading name Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the in
Leopard of Rudraprayag
…killed over five hundred and twenty-five human beings, one followed on the heels of a very severe outbreak of cholera, while the other followed the mysterious disease which swept through India in 1918 and was called war fever. In Rudraprayag, there is a sign-board which marks the spot where the leopard was shot. There is a fair held at Rudraprayag…
Soldiers sick with Spanish flu at a hospital ward at Camp Funston in Fort Riley, Kansas
El Sol (Madrid), 28 May 1918: "The three-day fever – In Madrid 80,000 Are Infected – H.M. the King is sick"
Advertisement in The Times, 28 June 1918 for Formamint tablets to prevent "Spanish influenza"
Front page of The Times (London), 25 June 1918: "The Spanish Influenza"