Despite not originating in Spain, the 1918 influenza pandemic is commonly known as the "Spanish flu"-a name that reflects a tendency in public health history to associate new infectious diseases with foreign nationals and foreign countries. Intentional or not, an effect of this naming convention ...
Some take medicine such as aspirin while others try home treatments like herbal tea or chicken soup. The flu on the other hand can be much more dangerous. It usually gives you fever. Sometimes it can cause deathly. The worst flu, the so-called Spanish Flu of 1918 t...
Learning the Hard Way Great Lakes Naval Station Took Quite a Hit When the Spanish Flu Hit in 1918Byline: Madhu Krishnamurthy Daily Herald Staff Writer "The morgues were packed almost to the...Krishnamurthy, Madhu
the Spanish Flu is believed to have been most acute epidemic in history because of it killed 50 million people in 18 months.However,since Bird Flu first appeared in 1997,it has taken many than a hundred lives.With all the international effort being made,we have faith which there will be ...
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Old Mr.Smith died and the son on account of the war lost all his goods.He had to leave home and was forced to take up residence in another country.It so happened that in this village there were numerous shoemakers who were spending a lot of money to buy tacks for their shoes and eve...
But even that wartime boom doesn’t fully explain what happened next. Somehow, despite a global flu pandemic that killed 675,000 Americans in 1918 and 1919, and a depression that gutted the economy in 1920 and 1921, the United States not only recovered but entered into a decade of unprecede...
After World War II, there were tons of war movies for the next 20 years. But then, everybody knew what that war hadmeant.World War I, by contrast, had to be digested over time. The country had to figure out what had happened to it. Only then could the classic World War I...
Many Japanese people don’t have the opportunity to communicate with foreigners, so when they do, they tend to change their attitude a bit. Foreigners react in different ways to this — some feel they are being treated special, while others are uncomfortable. So says the w...
It all happened so fast. On May 19, 1918, the first warm day of the year, Ruth took his wife, Helen, to Revere Beach for an afternoon outing. Located just north of the city, it was the nation’s first public beach, a working-class “people’s beach” that featured amusement rides...