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5 Οκτ 2018 · After taking the lives of 195,000 Americans in October 1918, the Spanish flu dissipated as quickly as it had arrived, although it had a brief resurgence after crowds flooded city streets to ...
The impact of the pandemic on the United States is sobering to contemplate: Some 670,000 Americans died. In 1918, medicine had barely become modern; some scientists still believed “miasma ...
The Meuse-Argonne offensive coincided with the highly fatal second wave of the influenza pandemic in 1918. In Europe and in U.S. Army training camps, 1918 pandemic influenza killed around 45 000 American soldiers making it questionable which battle should be regarded “America's deadliest”.
Nationwide, October 1918 was the most deadly month, when 195,000 Americans died. The supply of health care workers, morticians, and gravediggers dwindled, and mass graves were often dug to bury the dead. Among the survivors was Amelia Earhart.
When influenza appeared in the United States in 1918, Americans responded to the incursion of disease with measures used since Antiquity, such as quarantines and social distancing. During the pandemic's zenith, many cities shut down essential services. Public health professionals on the home front, including many volunteer nurses, deployed ...
In the last quarter of 1918 alone, the Metropolitan life insurance company paid out roughly 68 000 death claims. The economic loss to the country was eventually estimated at US$300–400 million. Yet no one knew what organism was causing the disease, and nor would they for another 13 years.
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.
