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Nov 28, 2020 · Some examples are described in the recent Washington Post article ‘Mr. Homer McAmis is real sick’: In 1918, newspapers listed flu victims by name. For some locales, studies have been complied by entering data from death certificates. For example, see the report Alaska Facts and Figures 1918 Pandemic Influenza Mortality in Alaska. However ...
- It is still in its infancy stages, but BYU has launched a project to identify victims of the 1918 influenza pandemic using the FamilySearch platfor...
- Another resources that might be useful is the following: http://www.influenzaarchive.org/about.html
- Dear Mr. Schaffer, Thank you for posting your request on History Hub! According to the CDC , the number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 m...
- Walt Disney. “The wonderful world of Disney,” was not so magical when Walt was afflicted with the influenza virus. During World War I, at age 17, Walt Disney, in a patriotic gesture, or perhaps more of an escapist adventure with a friend, was eager to serve his nation.
- Edvard Munch. Today, the Norwegian artist, Edvard Munch, is probably best known for his 1893 portrait, Der Schrei der Nature (The Scream of Nature), more popularly known as The Scream.
- Katherine Anne Porter. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Katherine Anne Porter mostly wrote short stories, and her first and only novel was Ship of Fools, published in 1962.
- David Lloyd George. In September 1918, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom encountered the influenza pandemic in Manchester, England, the city of his birth.
- The Global Death Count of The Flu Today
- Global Deaths of The Spanish Flu
- The Global Death Rate of The Spanish Flu
- Other Large Influenza Pandemics
To have a context for the severity of influenza pandemics it might be helpful to know the death count of a typical flu season. Current estimates for the annual number of deaths from influenza are around 400,000 deaths per year. Paget et al (2019) suggest an average of 389,000 with an uncertainty range 294,000 from 518,000.4 This means that in recen...
Several research teams have worked on the difficult problem of reconstructing the global health impact of the Spanish flu. The visualization here shows the available estimates from the different research publications discussed in the following. The range of published estimates for the Spanish flu is particularly wide. The widely cited study by John...
How do these estimates compare with the size of the world population at the time? How large was the share who died in the pandemic? Estimatessuggest that the world population in 1918 was 1.8 billion. Based on this, the low estimate of 17.4 million deaths by Spreeuwenberg et al. (2018) implies that the Spanish flu killed almost 1% of the world popul...
The Spanish flu pandemic was the largest, but not the only large recent influenza pandemic. Two decades before the Spanish flu the Russian flu pandemic (1889-1894) is believed to have killed 1 million people.12 Estimates for the death toll of the “Asian Flu” (1957-1958) range from 1.7 to 2.7 million according to Spreeuwenberg et al. (2018).13 The s...
Jan 26, 2018 · Nevertheless, 1,300 citizens had died, out of 675,000 American deaths in total: more than were killed during the entire Civil War. The pandemic, combined with mortality during the First World War ...
Nine of the 68 fatal cases occurred before the September–November 1918 pandemic wave , with dates of death ranging between 11 May 1918 and 8 August 1918, a time when there was no evidence of elevated influenza mortality in the United States. The pre-pandemic and pandemic peak cases were indistinguishable clinically and pathologically, as were ...
- Jeffery K. Taubenberger, John C. Kash, David M. Morens
- 2019
Nov 21, 2011 · Before and after 1918, most influenza pandemics developed in Asia and spread from there to the rest of the world. Confounding definite assignment of a geographic point of origin, the 1918 pandemic spread more or less simultaneously in 3 distinct waves during an ≈12-month period in 1918–1919, in Europe, Asia, and North America (the first wave was best described in the United States in March ...
Sep 7, 2018 · In this article, we estimate the global death burden of the 1918 influenza pandemic. The burden has been estimated many times over the past 100 years, and the estimated burden gradually has increased. One of the oldest estimates was made by Jordan in 1927 ( 1 ), who estimated the global burden to be approximately 21.6 million deaths.
