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4 mar 2020 · Most striking is the large, sudden decline of life expectancy in 1918, caused by an unusually deadly influenza pandemic that became known as the ‘Spanish flu’. To make sense of the fact life expectancy declined so abruptly, one has to keep in mind what it measures.
This page therefore shows estimates of deaths during seasonal flu epidemics, historical flu pandemics, patterns of flu seasons in different countries, and confirmed cases of flu and flu-like symptoms across the world.
14 sie 2018 · We retrieved all death certificates from the Madrid Civil Registry to construct time series of deaths during the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic (Figure 1). Each record provides specific details of the deceased, including the date of death, age, and causes of death.
6 lut 2019 · The emergence of influenza subtype H1N1 in 1918, which ultimately resulted in an estimated 50–100 million deaths worldwide, would forever change the course of human history and will be discussed in detail in the following sections [4, 5, 6].
As in every influenza outbreak, the very young and very old were badly affected by the Spanish influenza pandemic, but in 1918 an exceptional number of influenza-related deaths occurred in relatively young healthy adults between 15–30 years of age, giving rise to the so-called W-shaped mortality curve. Just as in 2009,
The 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic appeared in Breslau (now Wrocław), Poland, in October 1918, causing high mortality. The “W-shaped” age-specific mortality pattern indicated in the graph was seen worldwide.
1 paź 2020 · The descendants of the 1918 virus remain today as annually circulating and evolving influenza viruses causing significant mortality each year. This review summarizes key findings and unanswered questions about this deadliest of human events.
