1918 flu pandemic

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many people think “the 1918 virus [influenza was] indeed the ‘mother’ of all pandemics” which killed many people(“Perspective.1918 Influenza”).The first flu vaccine ever created was in the year 1938.To continue,the first flu vaccine ever used was in that same year,the year of 1938.Influenza is a very deadly virus if not vaccinated and it can cause suffrage,death,and damage the host’s body.This virus is most likely to kill the host if they have never been vaccinated. Next,the flu can travel in…

Over 80 years after the1918 flu virus disappeared, epidemiologists still did not understand exactly why it was so devastating. After working with tissue samples from the autopsies of flu victims and the infected lung tissue of an Alaskan woman whose body had been preserved in Arctic permafrost, researchers at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were able to recreate an extinct virus. Then, in October of 2005, they announced that they had…

The influenza pandemic of 1918 was a devastating period in both New Zealand and world history. Cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history and responsible for more deaths than World War I, this influenza pandemic resulted in anywhere from 20 to 40 million deaths worldwide (Billings 1997:). The effect it had on New Zealand history was catastrophic, killing nearly 8,500 (Rice). Perhaps the most notable discrepancy in effect that the pandemic had on New Zealand population was…

AIDS and other Pandemics Pandemics have existed for centuries and their effects on society have changed the way people coexist, together as communities and with a disease. Every century is wracked with a new widespread pandemic that changes the structure of society and that allows people to gain and pass on knowledge for cases in the future. The major diseases that impacted the world centuries ago can shed light how society has progressed, not only in terms of technology and science but also…

citizens. With this shortage, the flu was not contained causing it to spread faster. Around this time, many jobs in shipbuilding opened up in Philadelphia. The cost was that there was limited space and the potential of getting infected. African Americans had to live in slums, which were breeding grounds for Influenza. Philadelphia’s health administrators furthered the spread of Influenza with a concert that had 200,000 people come. After that, 635 people got the flu. This was Philadelphia's…

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