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Pages in category "Flags introduced in 1918" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
1869–1918 1896–1915 1918 1919 1919 1940 1946 1949 1956 1956 1957 Hungary: Iceland: 1536 1809 1810 1900 1918 1944 Iceland: India: 1526 1858 1906 1907 1908 1917 1921 1931 1947 India: 1674 1773 Indonesia: 1640 1800 1942 1945 Indonesia: Iran: 1576 1736 1747 1760 1852 1907 1933 1964 1980 Iran: Iraq: 1844 1921 1958 1959 1963 1991 2004 2008 Iraq ...
The term pandemic had not been used then, but was used for later epidemics, including the 1918 H1N1 influenza A pandemic—more commonly known as the Spanish flu—which is the deadliest pandemic in history. The most recent pandemics include the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the 2009 swine flu pandemic and the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost all these diseases ...
[21] [22] According to the World Health Organization, approximately 10 million new TB infections occur every year, and 1.5 million people die from it each year – making it the world's top infectious killer (before COVID-19 pandemic). [21] However, there is a lack of sources which describe major TB epidemics with definite time spans and death ...
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 ...
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 .
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 ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, as with other pandemics, the meaning of this term has been challenged. [14] The end of a pandemic or other epidemic only rarely involves the total disappearance of a disease, and historically, much less attention has been given to defining the ends of epidemics than their beginnings.