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This template is used in these pages. Major modern influenza pandemics [1] [2] Name Date World ... fatality rate Pandemic severity; Spanish flu [4] 1918–20 1.80 ...
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.
Manchurian plague (part of the third plague pandemic) 1910–1911 China: Pneumonic plague: 60,000 [185] 1916 United States polio epidemic 1916 United States Poliomyelitis: 7,130 [186] 1918 influenza pandemic ('Spanish flu') 1918–1920 Worldwide Influenza A virus subtype H1N1: 17–100 million [187] [188] [189] 1918–1922 Russia typhus ...
A 2009 study in Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses based on data from fourteen European countries estimated a total of 2.64 million excess deaths in Europe attributable to the Spanish flu during the major 1918–1919 phase of the pandemic, in line with the three prior studies from 1991, 2002, and 2006 that calculated a European death toll ...
The 1889–1890 pandemic, often referred to as the Asiatic flu [53] or Russian flu, killed about 1 million people [54] [55] out of a world population of about 1.5 billion. It was long believed to be caused by an influenza A subtype (most often H2N2), but recent analysis largely brought on by the 2002-2004 SARS outbreak and the COVID-19 pandemic ...
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1920s: The Spanish Flu. In the fall of 1918, a mutated version of the virus that claimed its first victims in the spring made its way around the world, causing the death rate to escalate quickly ...
1869–1918 1896–1915 1918 1919 1919 1940 1946 1949 1956 1956 1957 Hungary: Iceland: 1536 1809 1810 1900 1918 1944 Iceland: India: 1526 1858 1906 1907 1908 1917 1921 1931 1947 India: 1674 1773 Indonesia: 1640 1800 1942 1945 Indonesia: Iran: 1576 1736 1747 1760 1852 1907 1933 1964 1980 Iran: Iraq: 1844 1921 1958 1959 1963 1991 2004 2008 Iraq ...