World War 1 ended and the influenza pandemic started, which would kill more people.
Answer this question… Soldiers infected in one country carried the infection to other countries.
Of the United States soldiers who died in Europe, half of them fell to the influenza virus and not to the enemy. An estimated 43,000 servicemen who were mobilized for WWI died of influenza.
it made most of the soldiers sick
It isn't, you may be thinking of the world wide Influenza outbreak of 1918-19 that killed more United States troops than the war did.
It's influenza and the pandemic started the year WW1 ended
The term that describes the spread of influenza across Europe after the war is "Spanish flu."
Influenza. There wasn't just the influenze pandemic of 1918! there was manyy manyy more! trench foot, lice, rats, the three-day ((early signs of influenza reapearing))
The 1918 flu pandemic (the Spanish Flu) was an influenza pandemic that spread widely across the world. The pandemic lasted from March 1918 to June 1920. The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War 1 at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster.
It prevented Europe from socially or economically recovering from the war
The Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918 was a pandemic that killed an estimated 20 million (with some estimates ranging up to 100 million) people in about 1 year. Approx. 5% of the world's population was killed.
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