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    Did a coronavirus cause the pandemic that killed Queen Victoria's heir?

    The Great Russian Flu of the early 1890s may have been a Covid-like virus that crossed to humans from cows, scientists suggestCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage
    by Robin McKie May 31, 2020 3 minutes
    Hospitals in the early 1890s were overwhelmed by patients suffering from respiratory and nervous system damage caused by what doctors then believed was toxic air. Photograph: Mediscan/Alamy

    The epidemic spread with startling speed. It appeared first in London and within weeks had swept Britain. Thousands died of respiratory illness, the prime minister was laid low, and employees’ sickness disrupted industry and transport. 

    It sounds familiar. Yet this epidemic erupted in 1891 when waves of disease swept round the globe, eventually killing more than a million people. The outbreak was later attributed to flu and dubbed the Great Russian Flu pandemic.

    However, a group of Belgian scientists has since argued. “The scientists used very sophisticated, advanced research and their claim is worth taking seriously.”

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