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Liputan6.com, Jakarta Spanish flu epidemic in East Java during World War I. Anthropologist Universitas Airlangga (Unair) Surabaya, Toetik Koesbiarti said there were three things that were done at that time to control the disease.
“There are three things that play an important role in controlling Spanish flu at that time, namely isolation which is currently called independent isolation, maintaining cleanliness or currently washing hands and using masks, “he said in Surabaya as quoted from Among.
The lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP) Unair explained that the Spanish Flu was a virus that was endemic in the world during World War I and endemic in Indonesia or in East Java from 1918 to 1920.
The Spanish flu did not come from Spain, it is called that because there were soldiers who happened to be sent to Europe and at that time there was a flu epidemic in Spain.
The Spanish flu has spread in Indonesia, such as in Palembang and mostly in Java, because many soldiers stop at Java ports.
“People who are infected with Spanish flu will have a fever. But people at that time did not know and thought that if they had a fever it meant that they had cholera or dysentery, which first spread,” said the graduate of the University of Hamburg, Germany.
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Regarding the pattern of transmission, Spanish Flu is almost the same as COVID-19 today. The difference is in the age who died. The Spanish flu caused many young people to die because the soldiers were the youths who had gathered.
“Currently, the most victims are parents with comorbidities,” he said.
Meanwhile, the pattern of handling is relatively the same as handling COVID-19 and the community is urged to carry out isolation, maintain cleanliness and masks.
“In the past, there was also independent isolation. Then they mentioned maintaining body hygiene, currently washing hands and wearing masks. More or less the same,” he said.
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