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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. [320] [321] This has led some historians to label the Spanish flu a "forgotten pandemic". [177]
An epidemiological study of past influenza pandemics reviewing previous medical historians' data has found England was affected in 1510 [37] and there were reports of symptoms like "gastrodynia" and noteworthy murrain among cattle. [38] The 1510 flu is also recorded to have reached Ireland. [39]
[6] [7] The 1557 flu saw governments, for possibly the first time, inviting physicians to instill bureaucratic organization into epidemic responses. [4] It is also the first pandemic where influenza is pathologically linked to miscarriages , [ 8 ] given its first English names, [ 2 ] [ 9 ] and is reliably recorded as having spread globally.
Pandemic: It’s a scary word. But the world has seen pandemics before, and worse ones, too. Consider the influenza pandemic of 1918, often referred to erroneously as the “Spanish flu ...
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.
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 .
Black Death (start of the second plague pandemic) 1346–1353 Eurasia and North Africa: Bubonic plague: 75–200 million (30–60% of European population and 33% percent of the Middle Eastern population) [49] Sweating sickness (multiple outbreaks) 1485–1551 Britain (England) and later continental Europe Unknown, possibly an unknown species of ...
And yes, someone who does not feel sick with the flu could be contagious. “We know that people infected with influenza tend to begin excreting the virus from the respiratory tract one to two ...