The 2nd wave of the Spanish Flu was far more deadly than the 1st wave

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Why the Second Wave of the 1918 Spanish Flu Was So Deadly

The first strain of the Spanish flu wasn’t particularly deadly. Then it came back in the fall with a vengeance.

The horrific scale of the 1918 influenza pandemic—known as the "Spanish flu"—is hard to fathom. The virus infected 500 million people worldwide and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims— that’s more than all of the soldiers and civilians killed during World War I combined.

While the global pandemic lasted for two years, the vast majority of deaths were packed into three especially cruel months in the fall of 1918. Historians now believe that the fatal severity of the Spanish flu’s “second wave” was caused by a mutated virus spread by wartime troop movements.

When the Spanish flu first appeared in early March 1918, it had all the hallmarks of a seasonal flu, albeit a highly contagious and virulent strain. One of the first registered cases was Albert Gitchell, a U.S. Army cook at Camp Funston in Kansas, who was hospitalized with a 104-degree fever. The virus spread quickly through the Army installation, home to 54,000 troops. By the end of the month, 1,100 troops had been hospitalized and 38 had died after developing pneumonia.

As U.S. troops deployed en masse for the war effort in Europe, they carried the Spanish flu with them. Throughout April and May of 1918, the virus spread like wildfire through England, France, Spain and Italy. An estimated three-quarters of the French military was infected in the spring of 1918 and as many as half of British troops. Luckily, the first wave of the virus wasn’t particularly deadly, with symptoms like high fever and malaise usually lasting only three days, and mortality rates were similar to seasonal flu.

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https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu-second-wave-resurgence

 

[Enfuego]

Fucking 1918. We haven’t advanced much as a country since that time.

 

[Willie99]

this guy's life is over. I almost feel bad for him but my "give a damn is busted"

Just hide in the closet, you'll be fine, promise

 

[StevieRay]

Maybe an infected will fart on him

 

[pathologist]

Nut job

 

[PatsFan1283]

It is a pretty good read, a reminder how disruptive and fragile the world was not just for most of human history but as recently as 100 years ago

We hit the lotto 10 times over

 

[rolltide]

and in more relevant news the Steelers 1974 Draft was the greatest of all time

 

[exploited17]

1918 wartime conditions in dirty trenches is so relevant to today. Very similar conditions today

 

[X-Files]

There's so many Mr Happys on this forum. They must be the same in their off the internet life too. Soon all this happiness being shared will infect the whole earth!

:aktion033


:cripwalk:

 

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[X-Files]

1918 wartime conditions in dirty trenches is so relevant to today. Very similar conditions today

Both then & now we have a worldwide pandemic. How "dirty" are the slums of Calcutta & the drug slums of America, besides similar places all over the world? If our world is so "dirt" free, then how did this Pandemic start in the first place & spread everywhere so quickly, even to the leaders of nations. So if you think, in this time, a virus can't mutate & be far worse in its second wave, i suggest you're mistaken. The practical thing to do might be to make contingency plans in case things do get a lot worse, rather than barking at the moon, as so many here do (wasting own their time & energy).

 

[jaws2357]

And World War Two was more devastating than World War 1

 

[X-Files]

Fucking 1918. We haven’t advanced much as a country since that time.

Advanced...transportation methods of spreading many diseases further, farther & faster. Not only in the USA, but worldwide.

Capiche?

 

[StevieRay]

This shit , agenda push is done

To update you once a heart attack drug guy had thousands at his funeral , thousands and thousands could riot and protests, blacks didn’t have to wear masks in Oregon, and Cal gov kept his winery open while everyone could not go to church, go to a park , etc

It became bullshit , so stop the bumps and troll and the bullshit , it’s over , wake up, it’s an agenda , be a solution, not the problem u so choose to be