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How fast did people die of the Spanish flu? The Spanish Flu: The Spanish flu likely didn't originate in Spain, but due to wartime blackouts, Spain was one of the first countries to report mounting infections and deaths. The Spanish flu was caused by a strain of the H1N1 influenza virus...
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, the deadliest in history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide—about one-third of the planet’s population—and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims, including some 675,000 Americans.
How U.S. city officials responded to the Spanish flu played a critical role in how many residents lived—and died.
Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
Anyone can get the flu, but some groups are more susceptible than others and are at greater risk for more serious complications or even death. Risk groups include: Children under the age of 2 (whose immune system is not yet fully developed) Seniors over the age of 65 (most flu deaths ar...
First detected in late 2019 in China, this novel coronavirus has spread worldwide, causing (at time of writing) over 50 million infections and just over 1.3 million deaths (1). Pandemics such as this occur infrequently, although in the last 100 years, Spanish 'flu, Human Immunodeficiency ...
But there's one thing in particular about each of these outbreaks to note: In each case, the deaths occurred in people that we'd otherwise consider young and healthy. We tend to think of flu resulting in the deaths of the very old and the very young, and the pandemics did affect ...
No one wants to show up early to the post-pandemic party. We need only let history be our guide. Most deaths from the 1918 Spanish flu, which infected about a third of the world’s population, arose from a “second wave” of infections, when troop movements during World War I undermine...
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