In the United States it was first identified in military personnel in spring 1918. It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the worlds population became infected with this virus.
1918 Flu Pandemic Killed 12 Million Indians And British Overlords Indifference Strengthened The Anti Colonial Movement
People move around much more and the spread of a virus is much faster than before when people traveled by ship or horse or didnt travel much at all.
1918 flu epidemic deaths. To date more than 956 million people have been infected with COVID-19 worldwide. So early on authorities were skeptical of the effectiveness of masks but they also felt that masks were not used properly. And it may have begun in the United.
Nearly 200000 Americans died from the Spanish Flu in October 1918 alone making it the deadliest month in the countrys history. During the pandemic of 191819 over 50 million people died worldwide and a quarter of the British population were affected. Today this epidemic is more precisely called a pandemic because it affected populations around the world.
Instead most victims succumbed to bacterial pneumonia following influenza virus infection. The virus infected roughly 500 million peopleone-third of the worlds populationand caused 50 million deaths worldwide double the number of deaths in World War I. The high mortality in the influenza epidemic of 191819.
During World War I in Europe the flu struck troops and civilians in the spring of 1918 and it flared up later in the US where 675000 people died. Before COVID-19 the most severe pandemic in recent history was the 1918 influenza virus often called the Spanish Flu. The toll of historys worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined.
The Spanish influenza pandemic of 19181919 which caused 50 million deaths worldwide remains an ominous warning to public health. Pneumonia and flu caused 403 deaths in Wichita in 1918. It has been estimated that at least 25 million and possibly as many as 4050 million people worldwide died during the outbreak.
In 1918 there was no air travel. Two decades before the Spanish flu the Russian flu pandemic 1889-1894 is believed to have killed 1 million people. The total number of deaths in Wichita was 1282 compared with 946 in 1917.
Many questions about its origins its unusual epidemiologic features and the basis of its pathogenicity remain unanswered. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 the deadliest in history infected an estimated 500 million people worldwideabout one-third of the planets populationand killed an estimated 20 million. The Spanish flu pandemic was the largest but not the only large recent influenza pandemic.
Another difference is that in 1918 between 50 and 100 million people died within two years. The public health implications of the pandemic therefore remain in doubt. Estimates for the death toll of the Asian Flu 1957-1958 vary between 15 and 4 million.
Six hundred and fifteen patients have been cared for there. The majority of deaths during the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 were not caused by the influenza virus acting alone report researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIAID part of the National Institutes of Health. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675000 occurring in the United States.
Sunday February 23 1919 page 5. The above graph showed very little difference in death rates between Stockton which mandated the wearing of masks in public and Boston which did not. The 1918 flu pandemic killed an estimated 50 million worldwide including nearly 675000 Americans according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There were 63 deaths from tuberculosis and 21 from typhoid fever. What lessons did experts learn from the 1918 flu pandemic. Doctors and nurses worked to breaking point although there was little they could do as there were no treatments for the flu and no antibiotics to treat the pneumonia.
The death toll was 228000 in Britain alone.
