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Oct 12, 2010 · During the flu pandemic of 1918, the New York City health commissioner tried to slow the transmission of the flu by ordering businesses to open and close on staggered...
Oct 6, 2020 · COVID-19 is caused by a novel coronavirus, not influenza, so scientists are still learning how it behaves. While flu is more active in the winter—and, as Markel points out, the 1918 flu died...
Sep 1, 2020 · Spain hated being linked to the deadly 1918 flu pandemic. Trump’s ‘Chinese virus’ label echoes that. The longer the influenza virus existed in a certain community, the less lethal the ...
Dec 11, 2020 · After infecting an estimated 500 million people worldwide in 1918 and 1919 (a third of the global population), the H1N1 strain that caused the Spanish flu receded into the background and...
Mar 11, 2020 · By: Dave Roos. Updated: September 11, 2023 | Original: March 11, 2020. copy page link. Print Page. Apic/Getty Images. In the late summer of 1918, the devastating second wave of the Spanish flu...
- Dave Roos
- 6 min
The 1918 Spanish flu was the first of three flu pandemics caused by H1N1 influenza A virus; the most recent one was the 2009 swine flu pandemic. [17] [18] The 1977 Russian flu was also caused by H1N1 virus.
- February 1918 – April 1920
- Worldwide
- 25–50 million (generally accepted), other estimates range from 17 to 100 million
- Influenza
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.
