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17 mar 2020 · It’s been almost exactly 100 years since a different virus stopped the entire world. That would be the Spanish Influenza, which in 1918 killed 50 million people, including 8,500 Chicagoans.
10 wrz 2018 · It arrived in Chicago by September 1918 and killed 8,510 people in the city in just two months. According to health reports, from September 21, 1918, to November 16, 1918, 37,921 cases of influenza and 13,109 cases of pneumonia were reported.
5 lis 2013 · Dr. Robertson’s response to the Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919 provides a case study for exploring the relationship between the statements of public health officials and the ways that newspapers shaped coverage of the influenza within particular communities.
19 mar 2020 · Illinois’s flu cases lightened after the devastating fall of 1918, but bad news hit again. During the winter and summer of 1919, the third and final wave hit. According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, about 23,500 Illinoisans died from the Spanish flu between 1918 and 1919.
16 paź 2005 · After ravaging points around the globe, the Spanish influenza swept through Chicago in the autumn of 1918 — killing 8,510 people in just eight weeks.
Thirty-eight died. Then, infected soldiers likely carried influenza from Funston to other Army camps in the States—24 of 36 large camps had outbreaks—sickening tens of thousands, before...
12 maj 2020 · The last great public health emergency in Chicago on the scale of COVID-19 was the influenza epidemic in the autumn of 1918. Even though 8,510 Chicagoans died of influenza and pneumonia...
