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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...
Sep 1, 2020 · In 1918, a novel strand of influenza killed more people than the 14th century’s Black Plague. At least 50 million people died worldwide because of that H1N1 influenza outbreak. The dead were...
Oct 6, 2020 · Nobody quite knows how the COVID-19 pandemic will end. Here's what we can learn from the 1918 flu.
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...
- 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
The name of Spanish Flu came from the early affliction and large mortalities in Spain (BMJ,10/19/1918) where it allegedly killed 8 million in May (BMJ, 7/13/1918). However, a first wave of influenza appeared early in the spring of 1918 in Kansas and in military camps throughout the US. Few noticed the epidemic in the midst of the war.
May 14, 2018 · In the fall of 1918, the United States experienced a severe shortage of professional nurses during the flu pandemic because large numbers of them were deployed to military camps in the United States and abroad.
