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By examining the origins, pathways, demographic impact and consequences for the public, the medical profession and governments, of the so-called “Spanish” influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, this article establishes the main contours of the worst pandemic in modern history, which killed some 50 million people worldwide in eighteen months.
Oct 27, 2021 · Since 1918, we have faced many epidemics, but COVID-19 has been the first to rival the great flu in how it has changed people’s daily lives. “We are living through a historic pandemic,” says ...
- Antonine Plague. Deaths: 5 million • Cause: Measles and smallpox. In "The Plague in Rome," painted in 1869, artist Jules Elie Delaunay creates an allegorical representation of the scourge breaking down doors.
- Plague of Justinian. Deaths: 30-50 million • Source: Rats and fleas. Josse Lieferinxe's "Saint Sebastian Interceding for the Plague Stricken," ca. 1497, depicts Saint Sebastian kneeling to pray before God on behalf of people suffering from or killed by the plague.
- Black Death. Deaths: 75-200 million • Source: Rats and fleas. The plague in Tournai, then part of France, as depicted in "The Annales of Gilles de Muisit" from the mid-14th century.
- New World smallpox. Deaths: 25-55 million • Cause: Variola virus. Explorers arrived to the New World bearing more than just turnips and grapes. They also brought smallpox, measles and other viruses for which New World inhabitants had no immunity.
Mar 1, 2021 · During the following 100 year, this plague pandemic caused about 25 million death people and reduced the European population with about 25%. Denmark was also reached by the plague pandemic 1349–50 and the following 50 years and during in the 1400s there were 9 outbreaks of plague in Denmark.
- Niels Høiby
- 10.1111/apm.13098
- 2021
- APMIS. 2021 Jul; 129(7): 352-371.
Jun 27, 2020 · June 27, 2020. Copied. Gift this article. Covid-19 has established itself as the deadliest, fastest-moving pandemic since 1918, and is nearing a half-million fatalities. During the century that ...
Jan 11, 2018 · This year marks the 100th anniversary of the great influenza pandemic of 1918. Between 50 and 100 million people are thought to have died, representing as much as 5 percent of the world’s ...
Mar 17, 2021 · The disease the virus causes was named. The W.H.O. proposed an official name for the disease the virus causes: Covid-19, an acronym that stands for coronavirus disease 2019. The name makes no ...
