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So I saw a special on tv about the spanish flu and thought it was highly intriguing. Lets delve.
* Spanish Flu lasted from January 1918- December 1920 (2 years and 11 months long).
* it infected 500 million people – about a third of the world's population at the time
* Death toll is estimated to have been anywhere from 17 million to 50 million
* In the United States, the disease was first observed in Haskell County, Kansas, in January 1918
*When an infected person sneezes or coughs, more than half a million virus particles can spread to those nearby.
*Most influenza outbreaks disproportionately kill the very young and the very old, with a higher survival rate for those in between, but the Spanish flu pandemic resulted in a higher than expected mortality rate for young adults.
*Despite its name, historical and epidemiological data cannot identify the geographic origin of the Spanish flu.
*Etymology: The origin of the "Spanish flu" name stems from the pandemic's spread to Spain from France in November 1918. Spain was not involved in the war, having remained neutral, and had not imposed wartime censorship. Newspapers were therefore free to report the epidemic's effects, such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII, and these widely-spread stories created a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit.
*One of the few regions of the world seemingly less affected by the 1918 flu pandemic was China
*Multiple studies have documented that there were relatively few deaths from the flu in China compared to other regions of the world. This has led to speculation that the 1918 flu pandemic originated in China.
*A large factor in the worldwide occurrence of this flu was increased travel
*The second wave of the 1918 pandemic was much more deadly than the first.
* Soldiers with a mild strain stayed where they were, while the severely ill were sent on crowded trains to crowded field hospitals, spreading the deadlier virus. The second wave began, and the flu quickly spread around the world again.
*After the lethal second wave struck in late 1918, new cases dropped abruptly – almost to nothing after the peak in the second wave
*In Philadelphia, for example, 4,597 people died in the week ending 16 October, but by 11 November, influenza had almost disappeared from the city.
*Another theory holds that the 1918 virus mutated extremely rapidly to a less lethal strain. This is a common occurrence with influenza viruses: there is a tendency for pathogenic viruses to become less lethal with time,
Much more interesting info on this: Spanish flu - Wikipedia
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* Spanish Flu lasted from January 1918- December 1920 (2 years and 11 months long).
* it infected 500 million people – about a third of the world's population at the time
* Death toll is estimated to have been anywhere from 17 million to 50 million
* In the United States, the disease was first observed in Haskell County, Kansas, in January 1918
*When an infected person sneezes or coughs, more than half a million virus particles can spread to those nearby.
*Most influenza outbreaks disproportionately kill the very young and the very old, with a higher survival rate for those in between, but the Spanish flu pandemic resulted in a higher than expected mortality rate for young adults.
*Despite its name, historical and epidemiological data cannot identify the geographic origin of the Spanish flu.
*Etymology: The origin of the "Spanish flu" name stems from the pandemic's spread to Spain from France in November 1918. Spain was not involved in the war, having remained neutral, and had not imposed wartime censorship. Newspapers were therefore free to report the epidemic's effects, such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII, and these widely-spread stories created a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit.
*One of the few regions of the world seemingly less affected by the 1918 flu pandemic was China
*Multiple studies have documented that there were relatively few deaths from the flu in China compared to other regions of the world. This has led to speculation that the 1918 flu pandemic originated in China.
*A large factor in the worldwide occurrence of this flu was increased travel
*The second wave of the 1918 pandemic was much more deadly than the first.
* Soldiers with a mild strain stayed where they were, while the severely ill were sent on crowded trains to crowded field hospitals, spreading the deadlier virus. The second wave began, and the flu quickly spread around the world again.
*After the lethal second wave struck in late 1918, new cases dropped abruptly – almost to nothing after the peak in the second wave
*In Philadelphia, for example, 4,597 people died in the week ending 16 October, but by 11 November, influenza had almost disappeared from the city.
*Another theory holds that the 1918 virus mutated extremely rapidly to a less lethal strain. This is a common occurrence with influenza viruses: there is a tendency for pathogenic viruses to become less lethal with time,
Much more interesting info on this: Spanish flu - Wikipedia
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