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27 de sept. de 2017 · Nearly 100 years ago, in 1918, the world experienced the greatest tidal wave of death since the Black Death, possibly in the whole of human history. We call that tidal wave the Spanish flu, and ...
13 de may. de 2020 · The 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic brought death and disruption across the globe, infecting an estimated 500 million people (about a third of the world’s population) and killing 20-50 million. The severity of the pandemic’s toll was particularly acute in Africa, much of which was under colonial administration.
Hence, the moniker ‘Spanish Flu’ Footnote 8 has stuck to the 1918–20 pandemic to this day. The news from Spain added attraction in the media because Spanish King Alfonso XIII was infected with the virus, along with his prime minister and some members of the cabinet ( Reference Spinney Spinney, 2017 ).
The possibility of a worldwide influenza pandemic in the near future is of growing concern for many countries around the globe. Many predictions of the economic and social costs of a modern-day influenza pandemic are based on the effects of the influenza pandemic of 1918. This report begins by providing a brief historical back-
2 de ago. de 2022 · In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately. Young, old, sick and otherwise-healthy people all became infected, and ...
9 de ene. de 2024 · The 1918–19 influenza virus is often called ‘Spanish flu’ because it was widely reported in Spain before other countries. There was no wartime censorship in neutral Spain. The pandemic started in 1918, most likely in the United States, and passed through soldiers in Western Europe in successively more virulent waves.
The 1918 Flu Pandemic peaked the same month as World War I ended, and contributed to the instability around the world in the following decades. It also inspired a search for causes and cures that contributed to medical innovation in World War II, and technologies we still use today.
