The Spanish flu (流感) also known as the 1918 Mu pandemic (流行病) was a deadly pandemic in recent history.It spread worldwide during the year 1918—1919.The virus infected (感染) 500 million people about a third of the world's population at the time. The outbreak of the Spanish flu ...
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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. How...
“Spanish flu” has been used to describe the flu pandemic of 1918 and 1919 and the name suggests the outbreak started in Spain. But the term is actually a misnomer and points to a key fact: nations involved in World War I didn’t accurately report their flu outbreaks. Spain remained ...
Pandemic: It’s a scary word. But the world has seen pandemics before, and worse ones, too. Consider theinfluenza pandemic of 1918, often referred to erroneously as the “Spanish flu.” Misconceptions about it may be fueling unfounded fears about COVID-19, and now is an especially good ti...
The first strain of the Spanish Flu wasn’t particularly deadly. Then it came back in the fall with a vengeance.
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The 1918 flu epidemic, also known as the great fluepidemic(流行病)or the Spanish flu, is considered the worst globalpandemic((全国或全球性) 流行病)in history, as it concentrated a high mortality in a short period of time. It is estimated that the mortality ...