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This has led to speculation that the Spanish flu pandemic originated in China, [192] [193] as the lower rates of flu mortality may be explained by the Chinese population's previously acquired immunity to the flu virus. [176] [192] In the Guangdong Province it was reported that early outbreaks of influenza in 1918 disproportionately impacted ...
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.
This is a timeline of influenza, briefly describing major events such as outbreaks, epidemics, pandemics, discoveries and developments of vaccines.In addition to specific year/period-related events, there is the seasonal flu that kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people every year and has claimed between 340 million and 1 billion human lives throughout history.
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 ...
In the spring and summer of 1647, an "epidemical sickness" prevailed throughout the New England Colonies and along the coast of English America.Considered the first documented influenza epidemic in North America, the outbreak is said to have spread all the way to the West Indies, where significant mortality was reported.
Physicians called flu variations of febris, or fever, in their records such as morbus catarrhales, [20] febris epidemica, [21] or even febris pestilencia. The flu paralyzed armies and communities in outbreaks noted for their speed and universality, which in major cities lasted around 4 to 6 weeks and claimed thousands of lives.
The courts of Paris were shut down during the 1557 flu pandemic Lazare Rivière researched and described the 1557 flu in France. French physician and medical historian Lazare Rivière documented an anonymous physician's descriptions of a flu outbreak [22] occurring in the Languedoc region of France in July 1557. [26]
The 1918 influenza pandemic has been declared, according to Barry's text, as the 'deadliest plague in history'. The extensiveness of this declaration can be supported through the following statements: "the greatest medical holocaust in history" [2] and "the pandemic ranks with the plague of Justinian and the Black Death as one of the three most destructive human epidemics". [3]