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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]
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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.
May 13, 2006 WHO investigated possible H5N1 human cluster in North Sumatra. [86] According to local tests, five members of an extended family have died of bird flu in the past few days. [87] May 15, 2006 According to local tests, a sixth member of an extended family have died of bird flu in the past few days in North Sumatra. [88] May 16, 2006
typhoid fever, hookworm, Spanish flu, polio, HIV/AIDS, and covid-19. The acceptance of the germ theory of disease in the late 19th century caused a shift in perspective. Instead of attributing disease to personal failings or God's will, reformers focused on removing threats in the environment.
The media storm around Desiree came at a time when the country was already on edge, in the midst of a pandemic — a novel H1N1 flu that would ultimately infect some 60 million Americans, and kill ...
Pandemrix is an influenza vaccine for influenza pandemics, such as the 2009 flu pandemic. The vaccine was developed by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) [2] and patented in September 2006. [3] The vaccine was one of the H1N1 vaccines approved for use by the European Commission in September 2009, upon the recommendations of the European Medicines Agency ...
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