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The Battle of Aleppo was fought on 25 October 1918, when Prince Feisal's Sherifial Forces captured the city during the Pursuit to Haritan from Damascus, in the last days of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the First World War.
This has led to speculation that the Spanish flu pandemic originated in China, [192] [193] as the lower rates of flu mortality may be explained by the Chinese population's previously acquired immunity to the flu virus. [176] [192] In the Guangdong Province it was reported that early outbreaks of influenza in 1918 disproportionately impacted ...
The 1918 flu pandemic, commonly referred to as the Spanish flu, was a category 5 influenza pandemic caused by an unusually severe and deadly Influenza A virus strain of subtype H1N1. The difference between the influenza mortality age-distributions of the 1918 epidemic and normal epidemics.
The U.S. is experiencing the highest number of flu hospitalizations in a decade, and there’s no sign that the virus is going to peak or go away in the coming weeks.With the busy holiday travel ...
The 1918 influenza pandemic has been declared, according to Barry's text, as the 'deadliest plague in history'. The extensiveness of this declaration can be supported through the following statements: "the greatest medical holocaust in history" [2] and "the pandemic ranks with the plague of Justinian and the Black Death as one of the three most destructive human epidemics". [3]
The Pursuit to Haritan occurred between 29 September and 26 October 1918 when the XXI Corps and Desert Mounted Corps of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) pursued the retreating remnants of the Yildirim Army Group advanced north from Damascus after that city was captured on 1 October during the final weeks of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War.
Influenza A virus subtype H1N1: Lab confirmed deaths: 18,449 (reported to the WHO) [264] Estimated death toll: 284,000 (possible range 151,700–575,400) [265] 2010s Haiti cholera outbreak: 2010–2019 Haiti: Cholera (strain serogroup O1, serotype Ogawa) 10,075 [266] 2010–2014 Democratic Republic of the Congo measles outbreak 2010–2014
The Battle of Aleppo may refer to: Battle of Aleppo (1918), during World War I; Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016), during the Syrian Civil War;