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Bookmark or Share- The 1918 Influenza Pandemic - Stanford UniversityIt has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster. The Grim Reaper by Louis Raemaekers
- Influenza pandemic of 1918–19 | Cause, Origin, & SpreadThe influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 was the most severe influenza outbreak of the 20th century. The disease that caused this devastating pandemic has also been called the Spanish flu. What caused the influenza pandemic of 1918–1919?
- Spanish Flu - Symptoms, How It Began & Ended | HISTORYUpdated: May 10, 2023 | Original: October 12, 2010. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919 was the deadliest pandemic in world history, infecting some 500 million people across the globe—roughly...
- Spanish Flu: What Is It, Causes, Symptoms & Pandemic - Cleveland ClinicThe Spanish flu was a pandemic — a new influenza A virus that spread easily and infected people throughout the world. Because the virus was new, very few people, if any, had some immunity to the disease. From 1918 to 1919, the Spanish flu infected an estimated 500 million people globally.
- The Flu Pandemic of 1918 | National ArchivesBefore COVID-19, the most severe pandemic in recent history was the 1918 influenza virus, often called “the Spanish Flu.”. The virus infected roughly 500 million people—one-third of the world’s population—and caused 50 million deaths worldwide (double the number of deaths in World War I).
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