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Japanese women in Tokyo during the Spanish flu pandemic, 1919. Estimates for the death toll in China have varied widely, [288] [94] a range which reflects the lack of centralized collection of health data at the time due to the Warlord period. China may have experienced a relatively mild flu season in 1918 compared to other areas of the world.
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.
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.
San Francisco received national praise for its early, proactive response to the Spanish flu pandemic in the fall of 1918. As another pandemic grips the city a century later, San Francisco's past ...
1957–1958 influenza pandemic ('Asian flu') 1957–1958 Worldwide Influenza A virus subtype H2N2: 1–4 million [187] [203] [204] 1960–1962 Ethiopia yellow fever epidemic 1960–1962 Ethiopia: Yellow fever: 30,000 [205] Seventh cholera pandemic: 1961–present Worldwide Cholera (El Tor strain) 36,000 [citation needed] [206] Hong Kong flu ...
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Flu spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics. Ten pandemics were recorded before the Spanish flu of 1918. [7] Three influenza pandemics occurred during the 20th century and killed tens of millions of people, with each of these pandemics being caused by the appearance of a new strain of the virus in humans.
August 28 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. August 30 – The Moscow–Washington hotline (a direct teleprinter link) is inaugurated by President Kennedy.