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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]
Symptoms of MERS. Early reports compared the viruses to severe acute respiratory syndrome , [10] and it has been referred to as Saudi Arabia's SARS-like virus. [11] The first person, in June 2012, had a fever, cough, expectoration, and shortness of breath. [10]
The virus, which causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), is a novel coronavirus that was first identified in a patient from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on 6 June 2012. Sporadic cases, small clusters, and large outbreaks have been reported in 24 countries, with over 2,600 cases of the virus and over 900 deaths, as of 2021.
The CFR for the Spanish (1918) flu was greater than 2.5%, while the Asian (1957-58) and Hong Kong (1968-69) flus both had a CFR of about 0.2%. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] As of 21 Jan 2025, coronavirus disease 2019 has an overall CFR of 0.91%, although the CFRs of earlier strains of COVID-19 was around 2%, the CFRs for original SARS and MERS are about ...
For both COVID-19 and flu, getting vaccinated is the most effective way to prevent infection or reduce the severity of symptoms if you do get sick. While there is a vaccine for RSV, it is only ...
So far, CDC estimates there have been at least 9.1 million illnesses, 110,000 hospitalizations and 4,700 deaths from influenza this season. ... “We have a really long way to go with this flu ...
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 ...
Adults 65 years of age and older can have a weaker immune response to flu vaccines, making them more likely to get sick with the flu or get flu complications even when vaccinated, according to the ...