1918 flu pandemic

Flu is a book written by Gina Kolata. Kolata wrote Flu in 1999. “Gina Bari Kolata is an American science journalist, writing for The New York Times”(Wikipedia, 2016). Kolata wrote Flu in order to inform people about the terrible plague of 1918. Flu is a nonfiction story explaining how the plague of 1918 destroyed the life of families and killed more than any other illness. Flu takes place during the year of 1918, when humanity was in the fight against the influenza pandemic. Unbothered by the flu

last 100 years, there have been 3 main influenza pandemics was identified, such as 1918 (Spanish flu, H1N1), 1957 (Asian flu, H2N2), and 1968 (the Hong Kong flu, H3N2). Among those pandemics, the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic is one of the worst pandemic in 1900s history and that caused 50-100 million people died worldwide. The 1957 and 1968 pandemics were also killed approximately 1 million people. In 2009, the most recent influenza pandemic (Swine flu, H1N1) was emerged and infected over 200 countries

Keaton had us read a few more articles on different pandemics. For the final project, she explained that each student would pick out a piece of paper from a hat, with the name of the disease, and we would have to make a presentation over it. I wanted Scarlet Fever, so I closed my eyes and dug into the hat in

The world has experienced a total of four pandemics within the twentieth century. These pandemics, as horrific and deadly as they are, have brought so much more positive advances to our health care system and how we prepare for biological threats. Although we are in the twenty-first century and we have advanced so far in healthcare, there is still the possibility of a deadly pandemic. Many people may confuse Pandemic with Epidemic which can often times lead to being over prepared or under prepared

the bird flu, the Spanish flu, and says the deadliest disease I think is the deadliest is the bird flu because it started by chickens like people have chickens at there house and it is close to there kitchen so the disease can go on to there food and make the people have the disease.I also think that the bird flu is the deadliest because it is passed on to other people, which is called an epidemic.and if the doctors don’t isolate the patients who have the disease it would become a pandemic. Another

Can the World Beat the Flu? The flu, short for influenza is a virus often overlooked but caught by mostly everyone that is evolving every day. There are many different strains of the flu, and there are more and more being discovered as time goes by. This virus has had many outbreaks which have caused massive amounts of panic throughout the world. Although efforts on fighting the virus have come extremely far in recent years, it is only a matter of time until there is another outbreak. It is extremely

The three worldwide pandemic outbreaks of influenza during the 20th century occurred in 1918, 1957, and 1968. These pandemics were named according to where they thought the strands originated. However, the Spanish flu of 1918 was so-named because it was Spain that officially declared there was a pandemic outbreak. It likely began in the United States. Many diseases come and go so to speak, but influenza has been around for many years. Although influenza often preys on the young, old, or weak, new

of people got sick. In 1918, someone must have sneezed. And someone was close by. Maybe they were friends, sharing homework. Maybe they shared a candy bar. Whatever happened, the disease that caused that first sneeze spread like a wild fire. And this was no ordinary cold. People who felt good in the morning were dead by the same evening. In about 18 months, about 500 million people around the world got sick. Over 50 million people died from the worst outbreak of flu in known history. There may

Influenza of 1918 The 1918 influenza had a catastrophic impact on the world. It washed over the world in waves, killing millions from even the most remote places on every continent. No one was safe from this lethal disease. It also had an odd pattern in victims that nobody had seen before, killing strong and healthy people. It was a ruthless disease that devastated it’s victims and killed them in a macabre way. The first reported case of the 1918 flu was at Camp Funston in Kansas on March 4 1918. This

The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 It was 1918 early moring at an crowded army base in Kansas when it started.It would become the deadliest disease since the middle ages, when the black dealth wiped out one-thrid of Eurpoes population. It may have started in the United States but it would pass all around the world. The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 was originally a bird virus but then it mutated into a human virus. Today we know it as the flu but back then it had many different names such as the Spanish