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. The 1918 flu was first observed in Europe, t...
How Was the Spanish Flu Similar to the Coronavirus Pandemic? You may have seen photos from the times of the Spanish flu circulating on social media. Even back then, people were ordered to wear masks and isolate at home if they were sick! Businesses and schools also closed, hoping to deten...
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 ...
The 1918 flu pandemic, 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 p...
The way that anti-maskers chafe at the mask requirement evokes a time when people were advised to wear a mask during the 1918 pandemic. As the Spanish flu swept through the world causing global devastation in 1918 and 1919, face masks became ubiquitous to help in preventing the spread of ...
I really get quite irritated when I read or hear of another “Pandemic”. I feel that it has become a buzzword attached to ANY disease that has more than a few cases reported. There are so many other problems we could be dealing with that may allow these diseases a foothold. Malnutrition...
One hundred years ago, an influenza pandemic swept across the globe that coincided with the development of a neurological condition, named "encephalitis lethargica" for the occurrence of its main symptom, the sudden onset of sleepiness that either developed into coma or gradually receded. Be...
In 1918 many countries, but not Spain, were fighting World War I. Spanish press could report about the diffusion and severity of a new infection without censorship for the first-time, so that this pandemic is commonly defined as “Spanish flu”, even tho
could be the start of an epidemic, but Krusen and his medical board said Philadelphians could lower their risk of catching the flu by staying warm, keeping their feet dry and their “bowels open,” writes John M. Barry inThe Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History...
The son of a Methodist clergyman in Wilson, North Carolina, John Stanbury got a unique look at the flu pandemic. Although he was only 3 years old in 1918,he rememberedhis mother and brother being sick: She was comatose for several days, but survived. At about the same time my brother,...