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In 1976, an outbreak of the swine flu, influenza A virus subtype H1N1 at Fort Dix, New Jersey caused one death, hospitalized 13, and led to a mass immunization program. After the program began, the vaccine was associated with an increase in reports of Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS), which can cause paralysis, respiratory arrest, and death.
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.
2019–2020 dengue fever epidemic: 2019–2020 Asia-Pacific, Latin America: Dengue fever: 3,931 [304] COVID-19 pandemic: 2019 [a] –present Worldwide COVID-19: 7.1–36.5 million [306] 2020 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola outbreak: 2020 Democratic Republic of the Congo: Ebola: 55 [307] 2020 dengue outbreak in Singapore: 2020 Singapore ...
A meme draws false comparisons between the severity of the 1976 flu season as compared to COVID-19. Fact check: COVID-19 is far worse than the influenza outbreaks of 1976, as meme claims Skip to ...
The following is a list of WHO recommended strains for the Northern Hemisphere influenza season. Starting in the 2012–2013 season, the recommendation shifted to include the composition of a quadrivalent influenza vaccine (QIV) that contains both influenza B lineages, alongside a trivalent influenza vaccine (TIV) containing one influenza B lineage.
In 1918, the world's population was menaced by a virus now known as influenza. The "flu," for short, has become a commonality that is widely misunderstood, even a century after it claimed 50 ...
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The pandemic broke out near the end of World War I, when wartime censors in the belligerent countries suppressed bad news to maintain morale, but newspapers freely reported the outbreak in neutral Spain, creating a false impression of Spain as the epicenter and leading to the "Spanish flu" misnomer. [9]