The native Americans and native Australians were fortunate that these populations were disconnected from those of Africa, Europe and Asia at the time. The Black Death was spread by infected rats.Another massive pandemic, the Spanish flu, spread worldwide in 1918, immediately after World War I, ...
which occurred from 1914-1919 claimed about 16 million direct deaths, only to be followed in its dying days by the Spanish Flu, 1918-1919, which took as much as about 40-50 million lives, easily spread as an offshoot of the war, xiv. Small Pox which had been recurrent in ...
and fear worldwide. But it was not considered a pandemic, because its geographic reach was limited. Conversely, the Black Death was a pandemic, but unlike the flu (and COVID-19 and Ebola), it was not caused by a virus
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(1851-1864), and the famine of the Great Leap Forward in China, the Black Death in Europe, the Spanish flu pandemic, the two World Wars, the Nazi genocides, the famines in British India, Stalinist totalitarianism, and the decimation of the native American population through smallpox and ...
Deaths, panic, lockdowns and US equity markets: the case of COVID-19 pandemic Working Paper SSRN (2020) 3584947 Google Scholar Baker et al., 2020 S.R. Baker, N. Bloom, S.J. Davis, K. Kost, M. Sammon, T. Viratyosin The unprecedented stock market reaction to COVID-19 Working Pape...
epidemiology and evolution is now larger than ever. Most recently, this was exemplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, which is the most devastating respiratory disease outbreak since the 1918 Spanish flu1. Rapid sequencing and sharing of genomic data has enabled researchers from around the world to ...
It is projected that 30-40 per cent of the population would be infected in a H5N1 flu pandemic, and as many as one-third would die. The 1918 Spanish flu caused 20 to 50 million deaths world wide. One scientist observed that the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic could have caused civilisation to...
Fig. 4: Three cycles of illness during pandemic influenza (Spanish flu) of 1918–1920 (black). Hypothetical Elliott wave (purple) is overlaid on the plot to demonstrate correspondence of deaths with different waves of the pandemic. Adapted from:https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918...
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