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The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus.
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.
The 1918 flu was an unusually severe and deadly strain of H1N1 [12] avian influenza, which killed from 17 [13] to 50 or more million people worldwide over about a year in 1918 and 1920. It was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history .
In 1918, the world's population was menaced by a virus now known as influenza. The "flu," for short, has become a commonality that is widely misunderstood, even a century after it claimed 50 ...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as Dr. Terrence Tumpey examines a reconstructed version of the 1918 flu. In 1995, Jeffery Taubenberger of the US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), wondered if it might be possible to recover the virus of 1918 flu pandemic from the dried and fixed tissue of victims. He and his colleagues ...
Vaccine makers choose one variant of type A H1N1, a variant of H3N2 and a B flu strain from a particular lineage, the CDC explains. Previously, they also included a B strain from another lineage ...
The findings are based on the analysis of samples collected in Europe during the 1918 pandemic. Seasonal H1N1 virus ‘may have descended from Spanish flu strain’ Skip to main content
The H1N1 form of swine flu is one of the descendants of the strain that caused the 1918 flu pandemic. [ 71 ] [ 72 ] As well as persisting in pigs, the descendants of the 1918 virus have also circulated in humans through the 20th century, contributing to the normal seasonal epidemics of influenza. [ 72 ]