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The influenza pandemic of 1918–19 was the most severe influenza outbreak of the 20th century. In terms of the total numbers of deaths, it was among the most devastating pandemics in human history. It is also called the Spanish influenza pandemic or Spanish flu, because the disease was widely reported in Spain early in the pandemic.
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20 Οκτ 2024 · Influenza pandemic of 1918–19, the most severe influenza outbreak of the 20th century and among the most devastating pandemics in human history. The outbreak was caused by influenza type A subtype H1N1 virus. Learn about the origins, spread, and impact of the influenza pandemic of 1918–19.
The “Spanish” flu pandemic was, quite simply, the single worst disease episode in modern world history. In the space of eighteen months in 1918-1919, its three waves killed some 50 million people around the globe, or some 3 to 4 percent of the world’s population.
12 Οκτ 2010 · The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919 was the deadliest pandemic in world history, infecting some 500 million people across the globe—roughly one-third of the population—and causing up to 50...
The Spanish flu hit different age-groups, displaying a so-called “W-trend”, with infections typically peaking in children and the elderly, with an intermediate spike in healthy young adults.
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus.
Following it are three essays that frame the 1918 influenza pandemic in terms of the biological history of the virus, the response of scientists who unsuccessfully sought to produce an effective vaccine, and the guiding parameters of urban public health during the early 20th century.
