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If you’re worried about the possibility of a coming bird flu epidemic, you can take comfort in the fact that humanity has survived a similar influenza epidemic in the past. Starting its rounds at the end of World War I,the 1918 flu killed an estimated 50 million people. ...
Printed from https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-spanish-flu-epidemic/ If you’re worried about the possibility of a coming bird flu epidemic, you can take comfort in the fact that humanity has survived a similar influenza epidemic in the past. Starting its rounds at the end of World...
The Spanish flu, a misnomer for a strain of influenza that rampaged across the globe in 1918 and 1919, claimed the lives of millions of men, women, and ...
The Spanish flu, a misnomer for a strain of influenza that rampaged across the globe in 1918 and 1919, claimed the lives of millions of men, women, and ...
Today, we find a different type of epidemic. In the early 20th century, a hunter from a village in the southeastern rain forests of Cameroon was chopping up a chimpanzee for meat and cut himself in the process. He contracted a mutation of the chimp’s virus, which would become what is ...
When the flu rampaged throughSpain, the Spanish government publicly announced the epidemic. Spain was the first country struck by the flu that was not involved in World War I; thus, it was the first country not to censor their health reports. Since most people first heard about the flu from...
The 1918 influenza pandemic known as the "Spanish Flu " has been the worst in recent history with estimated worldwide mortality ranging from 20 to 100 million deaths. Using epidemic modeling and hospital notification data during the 1918 influenza pandemic in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, we...
In the so-called Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-1919, three waves of the disease swept the world, killing approximately 50 million people, including 500,000 Americans. ButMinneapolisandMilwaukeesuffered fewer than 3 deaths per 1,000 people — less than half the rate in cities likeBaltimore,Boston...
The impact of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic on economic performance in Sweden An investigation into the consequences of an extraordinary mortality shock We study the impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic on short- and medium-term economic performance in Sweden. The pandemic was one of the severest...