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Outbreak 's plot speculates how far military and civilian agencies might go to contain the spread of a deadly, contagious disease. The film, released by Warner Bros. March 10, 1995, was a box-office success, and Spacey won two awards for his performance. A real-life outbreak of the Ebola virus was occurring in Zaire when the film was released. [1]
The outbreak of the German revolution in the first days of November 1918 increased the pressure on Wilhelm to abdicate, but he continued to refuse. In order to calm the volatile situation in Berlin, Chancellor Baden, without Wilhelm's knowledge or approval, announced on 9 November that the Emperor had abdicated.
Pages in category "Films about influenza outbreaks" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... 1918 (1985 film) F. Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in ...
The "flu," for short, has become a commonality that is widely misunderstood, even a century after it claimed 50 million lives worldwide. ... In 1918, the world's population was menaced by a virus ...
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen is a 2009 television drama. It is a dramatization of Dr James Niven 's attempts to deal with the Spanish flu , a 1918-1920 flu pandemic, in Manchester . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was written by Peter Harness and it starred Bill Paterson as Niven, along with Mark Gatiss , Kenneth Cranham and Charlotte Riley .
No memorial to the more than 17,000 Philadelphians that were killed by the Spanish flu exists in the city of Philadelphia today. However, in 2019, the Mütter Museum opened an exhibition called "Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 in Philadelphia." It aims to raise public awareness of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 and its ...
Eugene Lazowski born Eugeniusz Sławomir Łazowski (1913 in Częstochowa, Poland – December 16, 2006 in Eugene, Oregon, United States) was a Polish medical doctor who saved thousands of people during World War II by creating a fake epidemic which played on German phobias about hygiene.
The exact number of deaths is unknown but about 50 million people are estimated to have died from the influenza outbreak worldwide. [9] [10] In 2005, a study found that, "The 1918 virus strain developed in birds and was similar to the 'bird flu' that in the 21st century spurred fears of another worldwide pandemic, yet proved to be a normal ...