The history of the Spanish flu pandemic
It is interesting to see how this world always surprises us. Each year the governments of all countries prepare a budget. They plan each event in the country that could happen and set a date for that event. But what if mother nature planned something differently?
As the first World War drew to a close in 1918, a devastating outbreak killed hundreds of people. The disease was caused by a virus that took place in the respiratory tract and came to be known as the Spanish influenza virus. It killed millions of the world’s populations at that time. The world was inhabited by 2 billion people then, which means that about 500 million people were infected with the virus at that time, killing between 50 million and 100 million people.
Even the figures themselves are not well known because, at that time, the method was not as stable as it … Read more