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1 kwi 2021 · Analysis of monthly death totals for 1918 and 1919 in the “registration states” (defined below) shows that the striking increases in all deaths were due almost entirely to increases in...
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.
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.
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].
31 sie 2018 · The 1918 influenza pandemic was the deadliest in known human history. It spread globally to the most isolated of human communities, causing clinical disease in a third of the world’s population, and infecting nearly every human alive at the time.
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.
In terms of reasons for emergence of a pandemic variant after only 11 years, it is of interest that the last outbreak of A(H2N2) in 1967–1968 was extensive, as measured by pneumonia and influenza (P and I) mortality.
