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The 'flu' virus that killed 1,500 people in Malaga a century ago
PEDRO LUIS GÓMEZ
...in 2018, he has one of the most dazzling fortunes on the planet and enormous political power as well. Professor Silvia García Barrios, who has studied the history of the Civil Hospital and that of Dr José Gálvez Ginachero, says that in the early ... shipwrecked frigate Gneisenau (1900) were treated. At the time, these two were the only hospitals in the Malaga region and they played a vital role during the time of the epidemics. Dr Gálvez Ginachero was a key figure in organising the fight against the ... Spanish flu epidemic in Malaga, together with a group of other local doctors. It should be remembered, however, that in 1918 José Gálvez Ginachero was not yet the director of the hospital; he was not appointed to that post until 1923. The director of