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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.
1918 campaign on the dangers of Spanish flu Ministry of Health poster used during the Second World War, designed by H. M. Bateman. Later film produced in 1945 "Coughs and sneezes spread diseases" was a slogan first used in the United States during the 1918–20 influenza pandemic – later used in the Second World War by Ministries of Health in Commonwealth countries – to encourage good ...
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.
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 ...
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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
An H5N2 outbreak hit a flock of 7,000 chickens in south-central Texas in 2004, the first time in two decades a dangerous-to-poultry avian flu appeared in the U.S.
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.