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The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919 was the deadliest pandemic in world history, infecting some 500 million people across the globe—roughly one-third of the population—and causing up to 50 million deaths, including some 675,000 deaths in the United States alone. The disease, caused by a...
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bad ventilation put soldiers and sailors at high risk of catching influenza and the other infections that often followed it.[2,3] As with the current Covid-19 outbreak, most of the victims of so-called `Spanish flu’ did not die from influenza: they died of pneumonia and other ...
“Spanish flu.” By June influenza reached from Algeria to New Zealand. Still, a 1927 study concluded, “In many parts of the world the first wave either was so faint as to be hardly perceptible or was altogether lacking...and was everywhere of a mild form.” Some experts argued that ...
A year into the first outbreak of bird flu among cattle, the virus shows no sign of slowing. The U.S. failed to eliminate the virus early on; now 875 herds across 16 states have tested positive.
In the United States, nearly 675,000 people died during the pandemic outbreak. Of those that died, most were healthy adults; in fact, the highest casualty rates came among those in the 20 – 50-year-old age group. To this day researchers are not sure why that age group was affected, ...
There are many theories as to why what came to be known as the Spanish flu spread so rapidly and killed so many. While some scientists believe it had a unique ability to attack healthy immune systems, others point to environmental factors like poor hygiene, overcrowded hospitals, and malnourish...
Illnesses like SARS create panic because there are so many unknowns. In the midst of the outbreak, scientists weren’t certain if they would be able to eliminate SARS completely, or if it would become a seasonal illness like the flu, whichkills hundreds of thousands of people per year. Luc...