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[181] [180] According to Oxford, a similar outbreak occurred in March 1917 at army barracks in Aldershot, [182] and military pathologists later recognized these early outbreaks as the same disease as the Spanish flu. [183] [180] The overcrowded camp and hospital at Étaples was an ideal environment for the spread of a respiratory virus.
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.
Due to the long time spans, the first plague pandemic (6th century – 8th century) and the second plague pandemic (14th century – early 19th century) are shown by individual outbreaks, such as the Plague of Justinian (first pandemic) and the Black Death (second pandemic). Infectious diseases with high prevalence are listed separately ...
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.
Toggle the table of contents. ... Pandemic severity; Spanish flu [4] 1918–20 ... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: 9–14.
After the 1918 flu pandemic, many countries changed their approach to public health and disease. Will we do the same after COVID-19? The World Changed Its Approach to Health After the 1918 Flu.
Pages in category "Spanish flu pandemic" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
the 1918 flu pandemic where 500 million people worldwide were infected with H1N1 influenza A virus between 1918 and 1920, killing from 20 to 100 million people; the Influenza A virus subtype H1N1 which caused the influenza pandemic between 1918 and 1920, as well as the 2009 swine flu pandemic and 1977 Russian flu pandemic