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3 days ago · The Pandemic of Yore: When Spanish Flu Tookhold of Bermuda. May 18, 2024. Written by: Sandy Campbell. September 1918: After four difficult years, war-weary Bermudians were beginning to hope that the end of the First World War was near. By war’s end, some 80 Bermudians, whether fighting with the Black Bermuda Militia Artillery, the white ...
5 days ago · In September 1918, 12,000 Americans died of Spanish Influenza – 195,000 in October and 30 million worldwide. Vigorous healthy men had a 50/50 chance of survival, while the very young, the weak and the very old were most vulnerable. By the time Armistice Day was declared on Nov. 11, cases of influenza began to drop, with fewer cases reported.
5 days ago · How NYC Survived the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic. In 1918, 102 years before the rise of the coronavirus, the “Spanish Flu” pandemic began to kill millions of people worldwide. The flu...
5 days ago · Guy Beiner, Sullivan Chair of Irish Studies at Boston College, has published the edited volume Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten ‘Spanish’ Flu of 1918-1919 (Oxford University Press). Beiner, whose expertise is the history of remembering and forgetting in the late-modern era, has a long-standing interest in the Great Flu ...
1 day ago · In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately. Young, old, sick and otherwise-healthy people all became infected ...
5 days ago · Before discussing the actions of the anti-mask league, it is critical to remember just how widespread and deadly the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 was. The flu infected 500 million people...
4 days ago · When the Spanish Flu arrives in her small town in Minnesota, Daisy tries to shield her loved ones from the devastating illness. As the influenza pandemic sweeps through the nation, can Daisy protect those closest to home?
