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In 1918–1919, 99% of pandemic influenza deaths in the U.S. occurred in people under 65, and nearly half of deaths were in young adults 20 to 40 years old. In 1920, the mortality rate among people under 65 had decreased sixfold to half the mortality rate of people over 65, but 92% of deaths still occurred in people under 65. [ 300 ]
1957–1958 influenza pandemic: Influenza A/H2N2: 1–4 million – 1957–1958 Worldwide 11 Hong Kong flu: Influenza A/H3N2: 1–4 million – 1968–1969 Worldwide 12 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
The advance of American Nursing (3rd ed 1996) online, A standard scholarly history. Leavitt. Judith W. and R.L. Numbers, eds. Sickness and health in America: Readings in the history of medicine and public health (3rd ed. 1997). Lerner, Monroe, and Odin W. Anderson. Health progress in the United States, 1900–1960 (1963) online; Loving, David A.
1918 – 1920 1918 influenza pandemic: Pandemic Nationwide Fatalities estimated. Fourth-deadliest disaster in United States history. 116,000 [5] 1957 – 1958 1957–1958 influenza pandemic: Pandemic Nationwide Fatalities estimated. Fifth-deadliest disaster in United States history. 100,000 [6] 1968 1968 influenza pandemic: Pandemic Nationwide
Researchers have revealed that individuals born and infected during the 1918 influenza pandemic suffered two to three times the rate of Parkinson’s disease compared to those born before and ...
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.
English: Comparison of Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Seattle death rates for the last 16 weeks of 1918 during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Based upon 10941Table11.xls from *Hatchett, Richard J. (2007-04-06). "Public health interventions and epidemic intensity during the 1918 influenza pandemic".
For the 1918 flu, people infected numbers (500 million), mortality rate (2~3%) contradict the deaths worldwide "20–100 million" statements. Review needed. Lead: Johnson NPAS, Mueller (2002). "Updating the Accounts: Global Mortality of the 1918–1920 Spanish Influenza Pandemic". Kilbourne ED (January 2006). "Influenza pandemics of the 20th ...