Notes
-The worst epidemic known to the modern world was the flu epidemic of 1918
-The epidemic killed nearly 12,500,000 people in India. In the U.S.A. 550,000 people died.
-Influenza is a virus that goes to person to person using the air which they breath
-The reason so many people died is because we didn't realize it was a sub type virus that attacked. A sub type named H1N1.
-The pandemic was thought to occur when returning troops from WWI came back to separate camps. They brought the virus with them.
-In August 1918, a new virus emerged and attacked, it was called Pneumonia.
-Pneumonia developed quickly and usually caused death 2 days after symptoms.
-Six days after the first case in Camp Devens, Massachusetts, there were 6,674 cases.
Questions
-How did Pneumonia develop from the original virus, and why was it so deadly?
-How did the virus epidemic end? Did it kill itself off? Or was a vaccine developed?
-Why were more people killed in countries other than that of the U.S.A. or Britain or other developed countries?
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