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According to the infographic, there is no consensus on the origins of the influenza pandemic of 1918–19. What is known is that the outbreak was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin. A diagram shows symptoms of the influenza pandemic of 1918–19, including fever, aches, pneumonia, nausea, and diarrhea.
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 “Spanish” flu pandemic was, quite simply, the single worst disease episode in modern world history. In the space of eighteen months in 1918-1919, its three waves killed some 50 million people around the globe, or some 3 to 4 percent of the world’s population.
The ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic of 1918 was one of the greatest medical disasters of the 20th century. This was a global pandemic, an airborne virus which affected every continent. It was nicknamed ‘Spanish flu’ as the first reported cases were in Spain. As this was during World War I, newspapers were censored (Germany, the United States ...
15 de ene. de 2018 · English speakers first knew the pandemic as “Spanish influenza” or “Spanish flu.” Neutral Spain didn’t have wartime censorship, so unfettered press reports of the flu coming out the country made it sound as if the nation was suffering worse than others. It wasn’t. The word “influenza” is from the Italian and means influence.
3 de abr. de 2020 · It was the Spanish flu. Its death toll is unknown but is generally considerd to be more than 50 million. "The death rate in 1918 was very high ... somewhere between 2 and 2 1/2%," Nancy Bristow, a ...
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 ...
