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Oct 12, 2010 · The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919 was the deadliest pandemic in world history, infecting some 500 million people across the globe—roughly one-third of the population—and causing up...
Apr 15, 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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 influenza A virus.
Mar 29, 2019 · In Europe in 1918, influenza spread through Spain, France, Great Britain and Italy, causing havoc with military operations during the First World War. The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed more than 50 million people worldwide. In addition, its socioeconomic consequences were huge.
- Mariano Martini, Valentina Gazzaniga, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Ilaria Barberis
- 2019
Jan 20, 2004 · One could see influenza jumping from Army camp to camp, then into cities, and traveling with troops to Europe. His conclusion: the United States was the site of origin. A later equally comprehensive, multi-volume British study of the pandemic agreed with Jordan.
- John M Barry
- 2004
Moreover, by June 1918 the number of cases in Europe and North America began to steadily decline leading to a belief that the flu pandemic was over. In late August, however, the flu reemerged suddenly across the globe and with much greater lethality. The Spanish Flu ward at Walter Reed Hospital.
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history.
