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The unprecedented nature of the pandemic’s sudden appearance and high fatality rate serve as a stark reminder of the threat influenza poses. Unusual features of the 1918–1919 pandemic, including age-specific mortality and the high frequency of severe pneumonias, are still not fully understood.
8 kwi 2024 · Influenza outbreaks peaking in December 1917 and again in April 1918 were of low incidence (~5% of soldiers were clinically ill) and were associated with case fatality ratios fivefold lower than during the true fall pandemic (~1% versus ~5% case fatality ratios).
20 paź 2024 · Influenza pandemic of 1918–19, the most severe influenza outbreak of the 20th century and among the most devastating pandemics in human history. The outbreak was caused by influenza type A subtype H1N1 virus. Learn about the origins, spread, and impact of the influenza pandemic of 1918–19.
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.
5 maj 2021 · Separated by a century, the influenza pandemic of 1918 and the COVID-19 pandemic of 2019–2021 are among the most disastrous infectious disease emergences of modern times. Although caused by unrelat...
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.
The 1918–1919 influenza pandemic killed more people in absolute numbers than any other disease outbreak in history. A contemporary estimate put the death toll at 21 million, a figure that persists in the media today, but understates the real number.
