Thought to have started in the trenches of the end of WWI the Spanish flu reached pandemic status in the summer of 1918 & within 8 months was almost over.
The 1918 flu pandemic (January 1918 - December 1920) was an unusually deadly Pandemic which infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and killed 20 to 50 million of them-1 to 3 percent of the world's population at the time-making it one of the deadliest In human history far more died in the Spanish flue Pandemic that from the Black plague in Europe 500 years earlier.
To be very specific, most did not die from the Flu Virus, Most died from getting Pnuemonia caused by the flu.By the end of 1918
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Yes, the 1918/1919 influenza killed an estimated 20 million people worldwide, many more than died in WW I
This is the correct word that is usually abbreviated as "flu." Here are some sentences.The influenza epidemic left many dead and thousands weakened.I have had my influenza vaccine.She caught influenza and was sick for a whole week.
Anywhere from 3000 to 47,000.
An estimated 43,000 servicemen mobilized for WWI died of influenza (Crosby).
A Lot
According to the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention, there are 4 types of Influenza viruses, but only three infect humans (A, B & C). Influenza D infects cattle and is not known to infect people.
According to the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention, there are 4 types of Influenza viruses, but only three infect humans (A, B & C). Influenza D infects cattle and is not known to infect people.
In many different ways. One thing the Spanish did was bring different viruses and disease to them in order to kill them off. They also had to fight with them as if they were a different tribe.
if they kill people all of them
There is no evidence to prove that theory, but it would probably make a good bio weapon even though it doesn't kill as many people as some other diseases. It incapacitates, and enough sick people could interfere with the efficiency of a country.