history’s deadliest pandemic claimed the lives of approximately 50 million people worldwide and 675,000 in the United States. Nearly 200,000 Americans died from the“Spanish Flu”in October 1918 alone, making it thedeadliest month in the country’s history. ...
One unusual aspect of the 1918 flu was that it struck down many previously healthy, young people—a group normally resistant to this type of infectious illness—including a number ofWorld War Iservicemen. In fact, more U.S. soldiers died from the 1918 flu than were killed in battle during...
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Argue about the details if you like. He might be off, and other estimates might be off, about who might eventually have died this year given the absence of the bug. It is clear, no matter what, that coronadoom was, when it was deadly, a catalytic killer only. It couldn’t do the ...
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HMHS Britannic struck a mine and began sinking at the bow. In just 55 minutes, faster than the sinking of the Titanic, the Britannic sank in the Mediterranean. Of the more than 1,000 people onboard, 30 people died. It remains the largest sunken ocean liner, having never carried a paying...
苍白的骑士:西班牙流感如何改变了世界 the spanish flu of 1918 and how it changed the world 作者:(英)劳拉·斯宾尼(Laura Spinney)著 出版社:社会科学文献出版社 出版时间:2021.04ISBN:978-7-5201-8101-3主题:世界史中图法分类号:K15【中图法分类】...
"So many people were sick and so many people died and there was never a great novel of the flu pandemic written." MORE: 2 years into pandemic, Americans still feeling deadly impact of COVID-19 Lincoln continued, "For example, there's just a handful of memorials that were ever created....
The scenario that no one wants to repeat is the deadly 1918 flu, sometimes called Spanish flu. This disease was also originally attributed to swine, though now the birds get the blame. Within a year, more than 50 million people died; 500,000 of those fatalities were in the United States...
Between 2004 and 2005, 12 children in Japan reportedly died after taking Tamiflu. However, the children also had neurological problems that could have been associated with the flu itself. In November 2005, the Pediatric Advisory Committee of the FDA ruled that the drug was safe for children [re...