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  2. Spanish flu - Wikipedia

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    The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in the state of Kansas in the United States, with further cases recorded in France ...

  3. Influenza pandemic - Wikipedia

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    The Influenza A virus subtypes that have been confirmed in humans, ordered by the number of known human pandemic deaths, are: [citation needed] H1N1 caused Spanish flu, 1977 Russian flu, and the 2009 swine flu pandemic ( novel H1N1) H2N2 caused Asian flu. H3N2 caused Hong Kong flu. H5N1 is bird flu, endemic in avians.

  4. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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    Epidemics and pandemics with at least 1 million deaths Rank Epidemics/pandemics Disease Death toll Percentage of population lost Years Location 1 Spanish flu: Influenza A/H1N1: 17–100 million 1–5.4% of global population [5] 1918–1920 Worldwide 2 Plague of Justinian: Bubonic plague 15–100 million 25–60% of European population [6] 541–549

  5. Philadelphia Liberty Loans Parade - Wikipedia

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    The Philadelphia Liberty Loans Parade was a parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 28, 1918, organized to promote government bonds that helped pay for the needs of Allied troops in World War I. More than 200,000 Philadelphians attended the parade, which led to one of the largest outbreaks of the Spanish flu in the United States.

  6. Will this pandemic ever end? Here's what happened with the ...

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    A third of the world's population was believed to have contracted the Spanish flu during that pandemic, and it had a case-fatality rate of as high as 10-20% globally and 2.5% in the United States ...

  7. List of Spanish flu cases - Wikipedia

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    The 1918–1920 flu pandemic is commonly referred to as the Spanish flu, and caused millions of deaths worldwide. To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States. [1] [2] Papers were free to report the epidemic's effects in neutral Restoration-era ...

  8. Spanish flu research - Wikipedia

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    Spanish flu research. An electron micrograph of the virus that caused the 1918 flu. ... Look for "/1918" on the full list of H1N1 strains. Spanish flu research concerns studies regarding the causes and characteristics of the Spanish flu, a variety of influenza that in 1918 was responsible for the worst influenza pandemic in modern history.

  9. Feldman: 'When,' not 'if" the next pandemic occurs ... - AOL

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    The COVID-19 pandemic has killed over 1.2 million Americans and over 7 million worldwide. The 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic killed an estimated 675,000 Americans and 40-60 million globally.