When the Spanish flu killed millions of people around the world, it transcended into the lives of everyone. While the adults walked around wearing masks, children skipped rope to this rhyme: I had a little bird Its name was Enza I opened a window And In-flu-enza. Armistice Brings Third W...
COVID-19 has now killed more Americans than the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic did, when roughly 675,000 people died. It didn't have to be that way. "Big pockets of American society — and worse, their leaders — have thrown this away" by not getting vaccinated, Dr. Ho...
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...
John F. Kelly
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sometimes referred to as the “Spanish flu,” killed an estimated 500 million people worldwide, including an estimated 675,000 people in the United States. The strain was H1N1, technically a swine flu, but H1N1 is a human disease. People get the disease from other people, not from pigs. ...
While the war largely confined its ravages to the armies of Europe and the United States, the Spanish flu showed no such restraint, killing men, women and children all over the world. Almost 9 million people were killed over the 4-year course of the war. Between 20 and 40 million people...
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...
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. It killed more people in a year than the Bubonic Plague, and in its more than a year of existence killed more people than AIDS did in 25 ...
Third, the Spanish flu killed approximately 17 to 50 million people, and the lack of human response, overcrowding, and poor hygiene were key in promoting the spread and high mortality. Human behavior is the most important strategy for preventing the virus spread and we must adhere to proper ...