Spanish Flu During War

BACKGROUND OF DISEASE The Spanish influenza was known by a few names such as the “mother of all pandemics” or “La Grippe”. It lasted from 1918 to 1919 and caused a global disaster. It killed more people than the “great war” which is known today as World War I. The Spanish flu took the lives of about 40-50 million people total. The Spanish influenza was so severe that it killed more people in just one year than in the four years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague, which lasted from 1347

The 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic was a deathly virus that made its way to every across the globe by 1919, leaving a devastating affect on the world’s population and leaving many questioning any previous faith in religion and modern science. This essay will explore the global affect of the Spanish Flu Epidemic with special reference to its impact on South African society. Victims of the Spanish flu epidemic suffered from an acute infection in the respiratory system. The virus itself takes its form in

Are we prepared for the return of a killer flu? What is a pandemic? Unlike the flu that goes around annually, pandemic flu is much different. A pandemic of influenza (flu) occurs when a new flu virus that is foreign to our bodies spreads around the world, causing serious illness and possibly death. It is highly contagious and can therefore spread easily from one person to another, infecting an entire community in a matter of days. In the past 100 years, we have seen four pandemics—1918, 1957, 1968

The Spanish flu in World War I was a lot worse and had a way higher death rate than the common flu today. Therefore, they should not even be compared. It is so much different because during war everything was so dirty and everyone was always crammed in the trenches: “World War 1 trenches were dirty, smelly and riddled with disease. For soldiers life in the trenches meant living in fear” (WWI facts). This made it very easy to catch illnesses especially because the flu was so contagious. The symptoms

horrifying components played a part in the Spanish flu. The Spanish flu spread throughout the world in 1918 and devastated the United States. This flu came in three waves and affected the people of this world even more. Its name was known as the Spanish flu because of the major impact it did on the people of Spain. The people were not aware or prepared when the flu hit them which made everyone even more afraid of it. First of all, the cause of the Spanish flu had many theories to it. One of the

The Spanish Flu was called the mother of pandemics because of how strong and lethal it was. It claimed over 30 million lives and infected over 500 million people. It majorly affected people's lives, economy, and medicine. To this day the spanish flu has been cited to be the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history for how quickly it spread as well as the financial and emotional toll it took worldwide. The Spanish Flu was a disease that was a mutation of the common flu. The spanish flu

The Spanish flu also known as the mother of pandemics took an astonishing tole on all of Europe. The Spanish Flu originated in Europe and began in 1918 and lasted through 1919. The flu spread throughout the world mostly spreading to poorer areas. It infected over 500 million people and killed between 30-50 million people worldwide. The ramifications of the influenza was known worldwide and hurt the global economy of its day. The Spanish flu was a disease that was a mutation of the common flu. The

The 1918 Flu Pandemic Abstract One of the most virulent strains of influenza in history ravaged the world and decimated the populations around the world. Present during World War I, the 1918 strain of pandemic influenza found many opportunities to spread through the war. At the time, science wasn’t advanced enough to study the virus, much less find a cure; medical personnel were helpless when it came to fighting the disease, and so the flu went on to infect millions and kill at a rate 25 times

At the end of World War I, when a mystery Spanish Flu or the Great Pandemic death unfolds, before the outbreak is over, 500 million or one-third of the world’s population becomes ill and about 20-30 million parish, making it one of the worst pandemics since the writing of the earth’s history . The effect of the influenza epidemic is so severe that the average life span decreases by 10 years. Not only this, as World War I, delivers an unequal reason for being, the Spanish Flu brings an equal mortality

Military and Spanish Influenza during World War I The military strategies and decisions of the United States Military made the Spanish Influenza a disastrous and widespread epidemic from 1918 to 1919, which infected approximately one third of the world’s population (around 500 million people) and killed around 50 million. [1][2] In comparison, World War I only claimed an estimated 16 million life. [4][5][6][7]The flu killed more than war itself. [3] There were three waves of Spanish flu, which occurred