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Why the 1918 Spanish Flu Probably Didn’t Originate in Spain
Research offers new clue: Why was 1918 flu pandemic so deadly?
The 1918 pandemic killed predominantly young adults
The 1918 influenza pandemic killed 50 to 100 million people around the world. John M. Barry, the author of a book on the pandemic, explains what happened. And how the response to coronavirus could avoid a repeat of ‘the great influenza,’ or the Spanish flu. Read more: https://wapo.st/38TmrhD.
100 YEARS AFTER ‘SPANISH FLU’: IS THE WORLD READY FOR THE NEXT PANDEMIC? (Posted October 24th, 2018)
In 1918, as one global devastation in the shape of World War I came to an end, people around the world found themselves facing another deadly enemy, pandemic flu. The virus infected 500 million people across the world and killed more than 50 million people, three times the number that fell in the Great War, and did this so much faster than any other illness in recorded history.
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