Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History - Catharine Arnold
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In January 1918, as World War I raged on, a new and terrifying virus began to spread across the globe. In three successive waves, from 1918 to 1919, influenza killed more than 50 million people. German soldiers termed it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers referred to it as Flanders Grippe, but world-wide, the pandemic gained the notorious title of “Spanish Flu.” Nowhere on earth escaped: the United States recorded 550,000 deaths (five times its total military fatalities in the war), while European deaths totaled more than two million.
Amid the war, some governments suppressed news of the outbreak. Even as entire battalions were decimated, with both the Allies and the Germans suffering massive casualties, the details of many servicemen’s deaths were hidden to protect public morale. Meanwhile, civilian families were being struck down in their homes. Philadelphia ran out of gravediggers and coffins, and mass burial trenches had to be excavated with steam shovels. Spanish flu conjured up the specter of the Black Death of 1348 and the great plague of 1665, while the medical profession, shattered after five terrible years of conflict, lacked the resources to contain and defeat this new enemy. Through primary and archival sources, historian Catharine Arnold gives readers the first truly global account of this terrible epidemic.
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This post has 8 comments with rating of 5/5
August 10th, 2021
History really just repeats itself.
August 10th, 2021
The first recorded case was in a military base in the USA….seems a bit sus
August 10th, 2021
@jonwb this would be during WW1, and a lot of countries were suppressing news about the pandemic so as not to sap the troops’ morale. Just because the first well known cases of it were documented in a military base, that doesn’t mean it’s likely where it started. It’s just a place where there were lots of people coming and going who had contact with people from many different countries. Not ’sus’ at all.
August 11th, 2021
Interesting.
1919: 550,000 dead. And it’s horrible.
2021: 660,000 dead. It’s “just the flu” or “it’s a hoax”
Funny enough, they had a hell of a time getting people to wear masks back then, as well.
Those who are ignorant of the past are doomed to repeat it.
August 11th, 2021
Fake. There is no such year as 1918.
August 12th, 2021
NCD’s kill more people than covid, so does TB, yet no media blow up about those?
Need more focus on whole person care. That approach will provide better perspective to the 1918 pandemic; current one.
August 13th, 2021
@dlennox tuberculosis kills more people than covid? Pretty sure that’s wrong. As for NCD’s, a lot of the time that stems from lifestyle choices. “Smoking/drinking/junk food are bad for your health” is commonly accepted knowledge in most parts of the world.
200 times more people died from covid as died on 9/11. For a communicable disease that we’ve actively been taking measures against, that’s significant.
July 30th, 2024
Please seed, thank you.
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