[Faline]

With masks over their faces, members of the American Red Cross remove a victim of the Spanish Flu from a house at Etzel and Page Avenues, St. Louis, Missouri1918.

[Viking64]

Now and then. Yeah, I like maps.

[Pelle]

Nice one Viking!

[carkees]

Originally Posted by Viking64 ↗

Now and then. Yeah, I like maps.

Sure has changed!

[Nite]

wait,what wheres the ambulance gone?

[chizdog]

So i know this sounds dumb but is this a basic flu? Just no proper treatment?

[Faline]

Originally Posted by chizdog ↗

So i know this sounds dumb but is this a basic flu? Just no proper treatment?

The 1918 flu pandemic (the Spanish Flu) was an influenza pandemic, and the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus (the follow-up was the 2009 flu pandemic). It was an unusually severe and deadly pandemic that spread across the world. Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify the geographic origin. Most victims were healthy young adults, in contrast to most influenza outbreaks which predominantly affect juvenile, elderly, or weakened patients. The flu pandemic was implicated in the outbreak of encephalitis lethargica in the 1920s.
The pandemic lasted from June 1918 to December 1920, spreading even to the Arctic and remote Pacific islands. Between 50 and 100 million died, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history. Even using the lower estimate of 50 million people, 3% of the world's population (1.86 billion at the time[9]) died of the disease. Some 500 million, or 27% (≈1/4), were infected.
Tissue samples from frozen victims were used to reproduce the virus for study. This research concluded, among other things, that the virus kills through a cytokine storm (overreaction of the body's immune system), which perhaps explains its unusually severe nature and the concentrated age profile of its victims. The strong immune system reactions of young adults ravaged the body, whereas those of the weaker immune systems of children and middle-aged adults resulted in fewer deaths.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

[Airbornemama]