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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]
In the event of another pandemic, US military researchers have proposed reusing a treatment from the deadly pandemic of 1918 in order to blunt the effects of the flu: Some military doctors injected severely afflicted patients with blood or blood plasma from people who had recovered from the flu. Data collected during that time indicates that ...
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 ...
Influenza viruses: You’re likely familiar with the seasonal flu, but in the last century there have also been four influenza pandemics: the infamous Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918, the H2N2 flu ...
Person-to-person transmission is still rare, but if the virus further mutates to make this easy, there is the potential for a devastating pandemic. The H1N1 flu pandemic of 1918 killed more than ...
1510 influenza pandemic; 1557 influenza pandemic; 1580 influenza pandemic; 1626 influenza pandemic; 1782 Influenza pandemic; 1789–1790 influenza epidemic; 1889–1890 pandemic; 1918 flu pandemic in India; 1957–1958 influenza pandemic; 1977 Russian flu; 1998 Winter Olympics flu epidemic; 2008 H5N1 outbreak in West Bengal; 2009 swine flu pandemic
As we face the real-life coronavirus pandemic, that mantra rings true. All this has happened before: a highly contagious, deadly […] What Coverage of the Spanish Flu Pandemic Can Tell Us About ...
The 2009 flu pandemic was an influenza pandemic first recognised in Mexico City in March 2009 and declared over in August 2010. It involved a novel strain of H1N1 influenza virus with genes from five different viruses, which resulted when a previous triple reassortment of avian, swine and human influenza viruses further combined with a Eurasian swine influenza virus, leading to the term "swine ...