The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic: The History and Legacy of the World's Deadliest Influenza Outbreak
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*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the pandemic from doctors
and survivors *Includes a bibliography for further reading One of
the startling features of the pandemic was its sudden flaring up
and its equally sudden decline, reminding one of a flame consuming
highly combustible material, which died down as soon as the supply
of the material was exhausted. There is every reason to believe
that, within a few weeks of its onset, the infection was
universally present in the nose and throat of the people,
disseminated by mouth spray given off on talking by innumerable
carriers and, in addition, by the coughing and sneezing of the
sick. Susceptibility was very general, though it varied greatly in
degree. Among those who escaped well marked sickness there are few
who could not recall having had an occluded or running nose, or a
raw feeling in the throat, or a cough, or aches and pains, at some
time during the period of the prevalence of the disease, these
probably representing the price such persons paid for their
immunization. - Dr. Bernard Fantus In many ways, it is hard for
modern people living in First World countries to conceive of a
pandemic sweeping around the world and killing millions of people,
and it is even harder to believe that something as common as
influenza could cause such widespread illness and death. Although
the flu still takes hundreds of lives each year, most of those lost
are very young or old or ill with something else that had already
weakened them. In fact, most people contract influenza at least
once, and many suffer from the flu several times in their lives and
survive it with a minimum amount of medical attention. In 1918, the
world was still in the throes of the Great War, the deadliest
conflict in human history at that point, but while World War I
would be a catastrophic war surpassed only by World War II, an
unprecedented influenza outbreak that same year inflicted
casualties that would make both wars pale in comparison. An
illness, or more likely a collection of illnesses, Spanish
influenza quickly spread across the world and may have killed
upwards of 100 million people, decimating populations across
developed nations and possibly wiping out as much as 5% of the
world's population. If anything, the ongoing war and the censorship
maintained by the countries fighting it may have resulted in the
actual toll of the outbreak being underestimated based on the way
soldiers' deaths were categorized. World War I may have distracted
people about the unprecedented nature of the outbreak, but the most
alarming aspect of the outbreak in 1918 was the indiscriminate
nature in which the scourge attacked young and old, healthy and
unhealthy, and rich and poor alike. In fact, the popular name for
the outbreak was a reference to the fact that Spain's own king was
stricken with the disease. While he and President Woodrow Wilson
ended up surviving it, former First Lady Rose Cleveland did not.
The staggering number of fatalities, and the way in which seemingly
anybody could suffer during the outbreak, taught people in the
early 20th century that regardless of the tremendous strides made
by technology, and no matter how stalemated the war was, nobody was
safe from nature itself. Of course, it also demonstrated how much
more work could be done to prevent similar occurrences. The 1918
pandemic was neither the first nor the last outbreak of the flu,
but it was by far the worst, and it forever changed the face of
medicine and public health care in both North America and Europe.
The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic: The History and Legacy of the
World's Deadliest Outbreak chronicles the devastating disease and
the damage it wrought across the globe. Along with pictures and a
bibliography, you will learn about the 1918 flu outbreak like never
before, in no time at all.
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