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10 kwi 2018 · Gathered here are images from the battle against one of the deadliest events in human history, when the flu killed up to 6 percent of the Earth’s population in just over a year.
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus.
19 kwi 2023 · Here is a timeline of how the Spanish Flu unfolded across the world. April 1917 – the U.S. enters World War I with 378,000 men in the armed forces, this will rapidly swell to millions of men.
12 paź 2010 · The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, the deadliest in history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide—about one‑third of the planet’s population—and killed an estimated 20 million ...
This pandemic has been referred to as the Spanish flu. That name is misleading. Spain was neutral in World War I, so the Spanish press was left free to publish information about the spread of the disease, and thus the initial news about the pandemic came from Spanish sources.
27 wrz 2017 · We call that tidal wave the Spanish flu, and many things changed in the wake of it. One of the most profound revolutions took place in the domain of public health.
The “Spanish” flu pandemic was, quite simply, the single worst disease episode in modern world history. In the space of eighteen months in 1918-1919, its three waves killed some 50 million people around the globe, or some 3 to 4 percent of the world’s population.
