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1918 Influenza Pandemic

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Influenza Pandemic 0f 1918-19 The influenza pandemic killed more people than World War I. “According to Taber 's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, influenza is “an acute, contagious respiratory infection characterized by sudden onset, fever, chills, headache, myalgia(muscle pain), and sometimes prostration”. Due to the lack of doctors knowledge, The influenza pandemic( Spanish Flu) spread fast.

Conversely, military historians have paid little attention to a deadly disease which underlines the reciprocal relationship between battlefield and homefront.¨ Lack of doctors not knowing about influenza. People not knowing how to deal with it. How quickly influenza spread. The biological properties that confer virulence to pandemic influenza …show more content…

People smelt death, they saw people’s dead bodies, They had chills, fevers, headaches, myalgia. ¨The origin site for the 1918 influenza pandemic which killed more than 50 million people worldwide has been hotly debated. While the mid-western United States, France, and China have all been identified as potential candidates by medical researchers, the military context for the pandemic has been all but ignored. Conversely, military historians have paid little attention to a deadly disease which underlines the reciprocal relationship between battlefield and homefront.¨

How the disaster could have been prevented, if the doctors knew more. If not prevented, discuss how could the disaster been handled differently, if people would of stayed in there house and had precautions. Influenza, acute, infectious, contagious viral disease of the respiratory tract, especially the trachea, colloquially called flu or, less often, grippe.

The influenza pandemic killed more than the World War 1(WW1) did. The influenza “Spanish Flu”killed around 20-40 million people. This horrible global disaster left people in fear and knowing that it would most likely be here once again (The 1918 Influenza Pandemic 1). The flu took a heavy human toll, wiping out entire families and leaving countless widows and orphans in its wake. Funeral parlors were overwhelmed and bodies piled up. Some people even had to dig graves for their own family

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•The influenza infection is extremely infectious: When a contaminated individual coughs, wheezes or talks, respiratory droplets are produced and transmitted into the air, and can then can be breathed in by someone close-by. •A person who touches something with the infection on it and afterward touches his or her mouth, eyes or nose can get to be contaminated. •An influenza pandemic, for example, the one in 1918, happens when a particularly harmful new flu strain for which there 's practically no immunity shows up and spreads rapidly from individual to-individual around the world.

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The Great War was coming to end and with it soldiers were returning home. Returning home with them was a disease known as influenza. The global interconnectedness from this total war not only connected people and violence but also spread the flu. Influenza killed many citizens globally and was difficult to stop, due to a lack of medical knowledge. Africa and India had a similar response to the influenza epidemic as both blamed the unfortunateness on the divine.

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The two films depict the Black Death of the 14th century in Tuscany and the Spanish Flu of 1918 in Britain in very different ways. While Cataclysm takes a broad approach to exploring how the Black Death affected the entire society, The Flu that Killed 50 Million focuses more on the individual impacts of the epidemic. Cataclysm uses historical accounts, including first-hand accounts of the time, to recreate the events and atmosphere of the time, whereas The Flu that Killed 50 Million focuses on a more intimate story and uses more modern techniques, such as interviews and archival footage, to depict the real-world consequences of the Spanish flu. Both films have different objectives and tell different stories, but they both share a common goal:

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1 Diseases Today I want to tell you about the diseases in World War one. Many of those diseases led to the dead of the soldiers because they had little knowledge and medicine. The conditions in the trenches were horrible. Little foot and fresh water, living in wet trenches, no medical care were the cause of those diseases: Trench foot, trench fever, gas, trench mouth, venereal diseases... Soldiers were sick, hungry and were exposure to the elements of nature.

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It also contributed to many more soldiers falling ill due to influenza, malaria, cholera, typhoid, and diabetes. There were many fallen soldiers due to this. The

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What is the Spanish Influenza? The Spanish Influenza type A is a pandemic also known as H1N1, one of the deadliest viruses ever. Meaning it had spread globally killing a vast number of individuals. The vector for this virus is an avian also known as a bird. In 1918-1919 it was known for the number of deaths it caused as well as how it was commonly mistaken for a common cold because the signs and symptoms were extremely similar.

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It is said to be the most devastating outbreak in world history. More people died of the flu in a single year than those who died in the four years of Black Plague from 1347 to 1351. In addition, it killed more people in 25 weeks than AIDS killed in 25 years. The 1918-1919 flu also known as "Spanish flu" was a global catastrophe. Epidemics become unmanageable at alarming speeds because people might not use proper treatment, lack of herd immunity.

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