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Malnourishment, overcrowded medical camps and hospitals, and poor hygiene, exacerbated by the war, promoted bacterial superinfection, killing most of the victims after a typically prolonged death bed. [13] [14] The 1918 Spanish flu was the first of three flu pandemics caused by H1N1 influenza A virus; the others being the 1977 Russian flu and ...
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic is commonly referred to as the Spanish flu, and caused millions of deaths worldwide. To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States.
Epidemics and pandemics with at least 1 million deaths Rank Epidemics/pandemics Disease Death toll Percentage of population lost Years Location 1 1918 Flu: Influenza A/H1N1: 17–100 million 1–5.4% of global population [4] 1918–1920 Worldwide 2 Plague of Justinian: Bubonic plague 15–100 million 25–60% of European population [5] 541–549
The year was 1918. As World War I was ending, the Spanish Flu began ravaging the world. Within a year, it killed 675,000 Americans and 50 million worldwide -- 10 million more than those who ...
The Spanish flu pandemic lasted from 1918 to 1920. [58] Various estimates say it killed between 17 million and 100 million people [ 59 ] [ 28 ] [ 60 ] This pandemic has been described as "the greatest medical holocaust in history" and may have killed as many people as the Black Death , [ 61 ] although the Black Death is estimated to have killed ...
San Francisco received national praise for its early, proactive response to the Spanish flu pandemic in the fall of 1918. As another pandemic grips the city a century later, San Francisco's past ...
1918 flu pandemic in India was the outbreak of an unusually deadly influenza pandemic in British India between 1918 and 1920 as a part of the worldwide Spanish flu pandemic. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Also referred to as the Bombay Influenza or the Bombay Fever in India, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] the pandemic is believed to have killed up to 17–18 million people in the ...
The known death toll from the coronavirus in the United States will surpass the number of dead from the 1918-19 Spanish Flu within the next day or two, data suggests.