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The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918: A Digital Encyclopedia (www.influenzaarchive.org) is being created in partnership with the University of Michigan Scholarly Publishing Office and launches officially in 2012. It will include interpretative essays, timelines, archival documents, and images, and be fully searchable. Once operational, the ...
How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America. The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined.
11 Απρ 2024 · Before COVID-19, the most severe pandemic in recent history was the 1918 influenza virus, often called “the Spanish Flu.” The virus infected roughly 500 million people—one-third of the world’s population—and caused 50 million deaths worldwide (double the number of deaths in World War I).
14 Σεπ 2022 · Flu mortality in the United States declined precipitously with the end of the war (November 11, 1918). After the second wave, there was a seasonal bump of flu in winter 1918–1919 with higher than usual pneumonia mortality, and sporadic outbreaks dispersed throughout the world in 1919 and even 1920.
Data from U.S. military training camps in 1918 indicated that the odds of influenza cases being complicated by bronchopneumonia in September–October 1918 were approximately 25-fold higher than they had been in the December 1917–April 1918 pre-pandemic peaks of influenza-like illnesses .
8 Απρ 2024 · Influenza outbreaks peaking in December 1917 and again in April 1918 were of low incidence (~5% of soldiers were clinically ill) and were associated with case fatality ratios fivefold lower than during the true fall pandemic (~1% versus ~5% case fatality ratios).
26 Νοε 2009 · The 1918–1919 influenza pandemic was the greatest biological disaster in American history and altered the course of world history in numerous ways. Despite these realities this pandemic has widely been ignored by general American history texts.
