2006-09-12 03:48:20 · 21 answers · asked by fxbeto 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Influence epidemic of 1918
effect of the influenza epidemic was so severe that the average life span in the US was depressed by 10 years. The influenza virus had a profound virulence, with a mortality rate at 2.5% compared to the previous influenza epidemics, which were less than 0.1%. The death rate for 15 to 34-year-olds of influenza and pneumonia were 20 times higher in 1918 than in previous years (Taubenberger). People were struck with illness on the street and died rapid deaths. One anectode shared of 1918 was of four women playing bridge together late into the night. Overnight, three of the women died from influenza (Hoagg). Others told stories of people on their way to work suddenly developing the flu and dying within hours (Henig). One physician writes that patients with seemingly ordinary influenza would rapidly "develop the most viscous type of pneumonia that has ever been seen" and later when cyanosis appeared in the patients, "it is simply a struggle for air until they suffocate," (Grist, 1979). Another physician recalls that the influenza patients "died struggling to clear their airways of a blood-tinged froth that sometimes gushed from their nose and mouth," (Starr, 1976). The physicians of the time were helpless against this powerful agent of influenza. In 1918 children would skip rope to the rhyme (Crawford):
2006-09-12 03:55:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic also known as the Spanish Flu.
2006-09-12 05:54:54 · answer #2 · answered by Silvatungfox 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic
2006-09-12 04:02:09 · answer #3 · answered by Peachz 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was a major flu pandemic. It greatly affected the west coast of the US. Over 100 million people died world wide, I believe, as a result of this flu.
2006-09-12 09:21:13 · answer #4 · answered by mjtpopus 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Flu
2006-09-12 05:34:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Flu epidemic
2006-09-12 03:51:14 · answer #6 · answered by Pam 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Flu epidemic
2006-09-12 05:40:16 · answer #7 · answered by Jonathan D 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the spanish flu. some say that is what really caused the first world war to come to an end. they ran out of soldiers.
2006-09-12 03:52:30 · answer #8 · answered by scififed 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There was a pandemic flu. It killed more people than WWI, and actually was what brought the war to an end--people were too sick to fight anymore.
2006-09-12 08:08:31 · answer #9 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There was an influenza epidemic that spread through North America killing countless people, particularly children!!
2006-09-12 05:35:57 · answer #10 · answered by Jamie 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋