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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 · A hundred years ago, the Spanish flu spread throughout the world, killing an estimated 50 million to 100 million people. It arrived in Chicago by September 1918 and killed 8,510 people in the city in just two months.
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 carrying...
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.
5 lis 2013 · Dr. Robertson’s efforts to control perceptions of the 1918 influenza remain relevant to the present day, as public health officials use new forms of social media to provide information about disease outbreaks.
Several closely related viruses cause influenza, but one strain (type A) is linked to deadly epidemics. The 1918-19 pandemic was caused by an influenza A virus known as H1N1.
The crime rate in Chicago drops by 43 percent. Authorities attributed the drop to the toll that influenza was taking on the city’s potential lawbreakers. The month turns out to be the deadliest...
