07/08/2019 · 2. The pandemic was the work of a super-virus. The 1918 flu spread rapidly, killing 25 million people in just the first six months. This led …

01/04/2020 · 15 Fascinating Facts About The 1918 Flu Pandemic That Are Relevant Today. One in three people around the world were infected. by Mike Spohr. BuzzFeed Staff. 1. Five hundred million people — or a ...

11/04/2011 · The second wave was the deadliest. It occurred during the winter of 1918. Most deaths occurred in a sixteen week period, from mid-September to mid-December of 1918. One of the reasons the second wave was the worst is because the soldiers returning from the war brought the pandemic back with them.

12/02/2020 · Léonie Chao-Fong. The 1918 influenza pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, was the deadliest epidemic in world history. An estimated 500 million worldwide were infected, and the death toll was anywhere from between 20 to 100 million. Influenza, or flu, is a virus that attacks the respiratory system.

12/02/2016 · In January and February, 1918, an eruption of influenza in Haskell County, Kan., struck down some of the strongest, healthiest people “as if they had been shot,” Barry wrote in “The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.”

19/07/2017 · Here are 18 Interesting Flu facts. 1-5 Flu Facts 1. The 1918 flu pandemic is often called the Spanish flu because Spain didn’t fake and minimize the data about the dead like Germany, Britain, France and the USA. – Source 2. During the 1918 flu pandemic, 62 Boston prisoners volunteered to be injected with infected…

22/08/2019 · Fought between 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918, World War I was a global conflict primarily pitting the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria against the Allies which was a coalition of many nations, most prominently the Great Britain, France, Russia, Japan and Italy. There are many fun stories and incidents associated …