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In March 1918, some of the first recorded American cases of what came to be the worldwide influenza pandemic, also known as "Spanish flu", were reported at Camp Funston. [3] The first, on 4 March 1918, being Albert Gitchell, an army cook at Camp Funston, despite there having been cases before him. [ 4 ]
Despite the high morbidity and mortality rates that resulted from the epidemic, the Spanish flu began to fade from public awareness over the decades until the arrival of news about bird flu and other pandemics in the 1990s and 2000s. [316] [317] This has led some historians to label the Spanish flu a "forgotten pandemic". [173]
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic is commonly referred to as the Spanish flu, and caused millions of deaths worldwide. To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany , the United Kingdom , France , and the United States .
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Similar to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919 also was a time with food shortages. A lot of people took the time during both COVID-19 and the Spanish flu to learn how to bake bread. During both pandemics the death rate was very high and people were ordered to stay home.
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Since 2020, over 7 million lives have been lost to the virus, according to the World Health Organization. Social distancing, wearing masks and introducing COVID-19 vaccines led the WHO to declare ...
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