Its patterns of infection and symptoms have led some virologists and historians of medicine to now wonder: Might the Russian flu actually have been a pandemic driven by a coronavirus? And could its course give us clues about how our pandemic will play out and wind down? The Russian flu finally ended a few years later, after at least three waves of infection. And some of those who recovered reported a lingering exhaustion. Some of the infected described an odd symptom: a loss of smell and taste. Schools and factories were forced to close because so many students and workers were sick. It swept the world, overwhelming hospitals and killing the old with special ferocity.
The respiratory virus that killed them became known as the Russian flu. In May 1889, people living in Bukhara, a city that was then part of the Russian Empire, began sickening and dying.
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