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Despite the high morbidity and mortality rates that resulted from the epidemic, the Spanish flu began to fade from public awareness over the decades until the arrival of news about bird flu and other pandemics in the 1990s and 2000s. [315] [316] This has led some historians to label the Spanish flu a "forgotten pandemic". [173]
The 1918 flu pandemic, commonly referred to as the Spanish flu, was a category 5 influenza pandemic caused by an unusually severe and deadly Influenza A virus strain of subtype H1N1. The difference between the influenza mortality age-distributions of the 1918 epidemic and normal epidemics.
1957–1958 influenza pandemic ('Asian flu') 1957–1958 Worldwide Influenza A virus subtype H2N2: 1–4 million [187] [203] [204] 1960–1962 Ethiopia yellow fever epidemic 1960–1962 Ethiopia: Yellow fever: 30,000 [205] Seventh cholera pandemic: 1961–present Worldwide Cholera (El Tor strain) 36,000 [citation needed] [206] Hong Kong flu ...
Perhaps the most notable is the so-called “Spanish flu” of 1918–1919, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates “an avian-like H1N1 virus” killed 50 million ...
The H1N1 flu pandemic of 1918 killed more than 50 million people over three years, or less than 3% of those infected. By comparison, of those infected with H5N1, more than half of them died.
Pandemic: It’s a scary word. But the world has seen pandemics before, and worse ones, too. Consider the influenza pandemic of 1918, often referred to erroneously as the “Spanish flu ...
On August 9, the Colorado Department of Public Health reported bird flu in domestic cats, including indoor-only cats. [90] In late August, H5N1 had spread to dairy cow herds in California. [91] On August 22, the first person in the U.S. who didn't work with poultry or dairy cows was hospitalized with the H5 influenza virus.
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