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The 1957–1958 Asian flu pandemic was a global pandemic of influenza A virus subtype H2N2 that originated in Guizhou in Southern China. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 1 ] The number of excess deaths caused by the pandemic is estimated to be 1–4 million around the world (1957–1958 and probably beyond), making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history.
1918 Spanish flu; 1957-1958 Asian flu ... was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by ... nearly 160,000 deaths were attributed to these causes in ...
1957–1958 influenza pandemic: Influenza A/H2N2: 1–4 million – 1957–1958 Worldwide 12 Hong Kong flu: Influenza A/H3N2: 1–4 million – 1968–1969 Worldwide 10 1918–1922 Russia typhus epidemic: Typhus: 2–3 million 1–1.6% of Russian population [14] 1918–1922 Russia: 13 Cocoliztli epidemic of 1576: Cocoliztli 2–2.5 million 50% ...
1957 in Spanish sport (6 C, 1 P) T. 1957 in Spanish television (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "1957 in Spain" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
March 29 – María Josefa Segovia Morón, Spanish Roman Catholic laywoman and venerable (b. 1891) April 8 – Pedro Segura y Sáenz, Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1880) December 31 – Óscar Domínguez, Spanish painter (b. 1906)
The 142 m Torre de Madrid, built in 1957, heralded the "Spanish Miracle".. The Spanish miracle (Spanish: el milagro español) refers to a period of exceptionally rapid development and growth across all major areas of economic activity in Spain during the latter part of the Francoist regime, 1959 to 1974, [1] in which GDP averaged a 6.5 percent growth rate per year, [2] and was itself part of a ...
Panic buying occurred before, during, or following: The First (1914–1918) [5] [6] [7] and Second World Wars (1939–1945). [8] [9] [10] The 1918–1919 global influenza pandemic ("Spanish flu") led to the panic buying of quinine and other remedies for influenza and its symptoms from pharmacists and doctors' surgeries. [11]
The media stirred a moral panic by writing sensational pieces on the event. In the first and second days following the event, The New York Times wrote that the launch of Sputnik 1 was a major global propaganda and prestige triumph for Russian communism. [13]