spanish flu

Top ten under spanish flu history

Why is the one greater than the other not remembered
If you did not understand my question, here are a few examples: How come everyone knows about the Mongols, when the Timurids were more ruthless? Why do a lot of people know about the Black Death, when the Spanish Flu was worse? Why is the Zodiac killer not well known, when he murdered more people than Jack the Ripper? (Both were never caught) Why do very few people know of Stalin, even though he was worse than Hitler? I do not understand... Why is it when I find something about bad things in history, there is always a greater threat along with it?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090729190445AAtpmEr

How did Albert Gitchell Die
Im thinking it was Spanish Flu but im not sure. I need it for my history report.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090516165352AA1Et1x

can someone explain spanish flu in 1918 in germany
i have to explain it in my history test tomorrow like - how many it killed etc. and any other info? anyone help?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090511140733AAbcGCt

Is it the End of America
I think this is basically what they are doing. I believe our elections are rigged and have been for a long time. So now fast forward…. Swine Flu begins in Mexico. Man behind the curtain knows America is in economic shambles right now. If you look at the history of governments, when there are economic problems is the best time for any group to infiltrate that government. That is the best time for a government to become infiltrated and taken over. They are playing on ALL Americans emotions like this right now. Basically playing people against each other through media and false information. They know there is some anti-immigration sentiment in this country due to job losses, so they want to get the people all riled up about the borders. That is working. So then you have the American loving gun rights groups paying attention, those who are in the “right” party (not the far right) all worked up, the back and forth between the left and right while the most important stuff is being ignored because the whole country is bickering about nonsense, they put someone into office with a last name that resembles the terrorist group that we were “supposedly” going after, you know the Muslims, Obama’s middle name being Husein which will stir up emotions for some people who are still thinking that we’re going after “terrorists” that are Muslim, the ones so angry after 9/11 are still being patriotic and loving freedom, our military folks are getting more extreme from the inside, so then you have military pissed off because veterans from the past are screaming foul play, military and military supporters are fighting back and forth about what is patriotic and what isn’t, so they get all that old anger coming back to people in the country so they are stirring up emotions with people, prior to Obama we had Bush, a way toooooo far right agenda person who was slowly taking away our rights and changing the constitution, so now we have a black president which might stir up racial tension with those in the country that are white supremacist groups, and then you have African Americans (and White Americans) who have waited for the day that we have a cultural president, going back to Martin Luther King and the history, there has been a history of trying to surpress other cultures, so then they start making changes, throw in an Act that calls different groups terrorist groups, different groups start getting offended and looking at the person they hold personal negative views against, then you have the religions, they are playing on religious prayer right now, they throw that in there, get all the religions fighting amongst each other as to who is right and who is wrong and what is right and what is wrong. Go ahead and mix up racial, religious, and political tensions, what do you get? Agenda accomplished. All out war if people actually buy into any of this crap the media and political parties are spewing. It’s a sleeping beast, someone wanted to wake it up, who? Who wants to wake up an all out racial/culture/political argument? Why would they want to do that? Simple….to make changes in the government. Throw in some act here, another act there and POOF all your rights are gone. Everyone’s. Total dictatorship. They moved in before Obama, before Bush, and it’s been right in front of our eyes yet we were too blind and caught up in our own personal arguments in this country to ever see it happening. That’s my personal thoughts about what’s happening right now and I think it’s working hook line and sinker. Everyone’s jumping in with their info. you got vets and military people arguing amongst each other and shit I went to a coupon website today and read and argument between a Spanish person and a Black person calling each other racial names. Probably because the media just throw that whole Coupon article out there, and the media also just threw out “free cars for those on welfare”, can’t you people see it all around us? We’re being baited as a whole country. Completely baited. Punked if you will. I believe right now we have more freedoms then we ever HAD and ever WILL HAVE throughout the entire span of human existence. And i think thats coming to an end very soon... but for good. Once Power has been established in the worlds largest super-power, It will probably never be returned to the people. Is it really the end of America?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090508234439AAzcdHk

Did you know this about the flu and do you care
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It 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 In the fall of 1918 the Great War in Europe was winding down and peace was on the horizon. The Americans had joined in the fight, bringing the Allies closer to victory against the Germans. Deep within the trenches these men lived through some of the most brutal conditions of life, which it seemed could not be any worse. Then, in pockets across the globe, something erupted that seemed as benign as the common cold. The influenza of that season, however, was far more than a cold. In the two years that this scourge ravaged the earth, a fifth of the world's population was infected. The flu was most deadly for people ages 20 to 40. This pattern of morbidity was unusual for influenza which is usually a killer of the elderly and young children. It infected 28% of all Americans (Tice). An estimated 675,000 Americans died of influenza during the pandemic, ten times as many as in the world war. Of the U.S. soldiers who died in Europe, half of them fell to the influenza virus and not to the enemy (Deseret News). An estimated 43,000 servicemen mobilized for WWI died of influenza (Crosby). 1918 would go down as unforgettable year of suffering and death and yet of peace. As noted in the Journal of the American Medical Association final edition of 1918: "The 1918 has gone: a year momentous as the termination of the most cruel war in the annals of the human race; a year which marked, the end at least for a time, of man's destruction of man; unfortunately a year in which developed a most fatal infectious disease causing the death of hundreds of thousands of human beings. Medical science for four and one-half years devoted itself to putting men on the firing line and keeping them there. Now it must turn with its whole might to combating the greatest enemy of all--infectious disease," (12/28/1918). An Emergency Hospital for Influenza Patients The effect of the influenza epidemic was so severe that the average life span in the US was depressed by 10 years. The influenza virus had a profound virulence, with a mortality rate at 2.5% compared to the previous influenza epidemics, which were less than 0.1%. The death rate for 15 to 34-year-olds of influenza and pneumonia were 20 times higher in 1918 than in previous years (Taubenberger). People were struck with illness on the street and died rapid deaths. One anectode shared of 1918 was of four women playing bridge together late into the night. Overnight, three of the women died from influenza (Hoagg). Others told stories of people on their way to work suddenly developing the flu and dying within hours (Henig). One physician writes that patients with seemingly ordinary influenza would rapidly "develop the most viscous type of pneumonia that has ever been seen" and later when cyanosis appeared in the patients, "it is simply a struggle for air until they suffocate," (Grist, 1979). Another physician recalls that the influenza patients "died struggling to clear their airways of a blood-tinged froth that sometimes gushed from their nose and mouth," (Starr, 1976). The physicians of the time were helpless against this powerful agent of influenza. In 1918 children would skip rope to the rhyme (Crawford): I had a little bird, Its name was Enza. I opened the window, And in-flu-enza. The influenza pandemic circled the globe. Most of humanity felt the effects of this strain of the influenza virus. It spread following the path of its human carriers, along trade routes and shipping lines. Outbreaks swept through North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Brazil and the South Pacific (Taubenberger). In India the mortality rate was extremely high at around 50 deaths from influenza per 1,000 people (Brown). The Great War, with its mass movements of men in armies and aboard ships, probably aided in its rapid diffusion and attack. The origins of the deadly flu disease were unknown but widely speculated upon. Some of the allies thought of the epidemic as a biological warfare tool of the Germans. Many thought it was a result of the trench warfare, the use of mustard gases and the generated "smoke and fumes" of the war. A national campaign began using the ready rhetoric of war to fight the new enemy of microscopic proportions. A study attempted to reason why the disease had been so devastating in certain localized regions, looking at the climate, the weather and the racial composition of cities. They found humidity to be linked wit
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090506121048AAdu4zB

Are immunities passed down genetically
History - My grandmother had the spanish flu, and almost died of it back in 1920's. Since then she's never had the flu, or even a cold the rest of her life. My father has never had the flu, and rarely ever had a cold I myself have never had the flu, only had a stomach virus a couple times in my life, and get a cold MAYBE once a year Question Part 1: Could the immunities my grandmother's body created from having the Spanish flu so severely, be the cause of her not ever having had the flu again ? Question Part 2: Could those immunities have passed to my father and I, and be the explination as to why we've never had the flu either? I'm not even going to be ignorant enough to ask that IF the answer to both these questions is yes, does that mean I wont get swine flu since it's also H1N1 type A like the Spanish flu. hahaha if I get swine flu, I get swine flu. Nothing you can do about it other than try to stay healthy and sanitary!
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090501081629AAyP6og

Is the H1N1 Flu worrying you
Personally I'm a bit worried, not at the moment but for the future. History has shown us that spring pandemic that makes people mildly ill is often followed by a much more lethal flu months down the road, hence the Spanish Flu of 1918 for example. Hopefully we'll come up with something to help us if this happens, and hopefully this will never happen at all, but is anyone else worried history could repeat itself? I think personally we shouldn't over worry, just stay vigilant and up to date on whats going on with the flu. Even if you don't worry about it its important still to no whats going on with it.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090430173605AATO2yk

Is the Swine Flu going to be just like the Spanish Flu of 19181919
In the 1918–1919 pandemic, a first or spring wave began in March 1918 and spread unevenly through the United States, Europe, and possibly Asia over the next 6 months (Figure 1). Illness rates were high, but death rates in most locales were not appreciably above normal. A second or fall wave spread globally from September to November 1918 and was highly fatal. In many nations, a third wave occurred in early 1919 (21). Clinical similarities led contemporary observers to conclude initially that they were observing the same disease in the successive waves. The milder forms of illness in all 3 waves were identical and typical of influenza seen in the 1889 pandemic and in prior interpandemic years. In retrospect, even the rapid progressions from uncomplicated influenza infections to fatal pneumonia, a hallmark of the 1918–1919 fall and winter waves, had been noted in the relatively few severe spring wave cases. The differences between the waves thus seemed to be primarily in the much higher frequency of complicated, severe, and fatal cases in the last 2 waves. My source comes from the cdc website: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol12no01/05-0979.htm Just a question, history does tend to repeat itself.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090430091457AADpbQB

Spanish Flu, 1918 Spanish Flu, The Spanish Flu, Spanish Flu Symptoms, Spanish Flu Epidemic, Spanish Flu Pandemic, 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic, Symptoms Of The Spanish Flu, Could The Spanish Flu Ever Return, How Did The Spanish Flu Enter America, Where Did The Spanish Flu Start, Spanish Flu Virus, Where Did The Spanish Flu Originate From, Could The Spanish Flu Ever Come Back, H1n1 And Spanish Flu, H1n1 Vs Spanish Flu, Spanish Flu History, Spanish Pandemic Flu, Warning Signs For Spanish Flu, 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic, Are There Treatments For The Spanish Flu, Pictures Of The Spanish Flu, Spanish Flu And Aspirin, Spanish Flu Of 1918 Return, Spanish Flu Us Soldiers Vaccination, Swine Flu Related To Spanish Flu, 1918 Spanish Flu Bacillus Influenzae Of Pfeiffer, 1918 Spanish Flu Out Break, H5n1 Spanish Flu Swine Flu, History Of Spanish Flu, How Long Did The Spanish Flu Last, How Was The Spanish Flu Treated, Spanish Flu Hoax, Spanish Flu Immigration Decrease, Spanish Flu Pandemic 1918 Hospital, Swine Flu Spanish, Swine Flu Spanish Flu, Swine Flu Vs Spanish Flu, Victims Of Spanish Flu, What Is The Origin Of The Spanish Flu, What Types Of Methods Of Prevention To The Spanish Flu, What Was The Spanish Flu, Where Did The Spanish Flu Come From, Why Was It Called The Spanish Flu, 1918 Spanish Flu + Vaccination, 1918 Spanish Flu Deaths, 1918 Spanish Flu In Wv, 1918 Spanish Flu Rhode Island, 1956 Spanish Flu, Construct Spanish Flu, Death Records For Spanish Flu Of 1917 And 1918 In Wisconsin, Deaths From Spanish Flu, Graphs Showing Spanish Flu Victims, History Of The 1918 Spanish Flu, How Did People Protect Themselves For The Spanish Flu, How Did The Spanish Flu Enter The United States, How Did The Spanish Flu Start, How Many Americans Got Spanish Flu, Is Swine Flu Same As Spanish Flu, Is The Spanish Influenza Of 1918 The Same As The Bird Flu, Percentage Of Americans Killed By Spanish Flu, Spanish Flu Simptoms, Spanish Flu Articles, Spanish Flu Aspirin, Spanish Flu Deaths, Spanish Flu H1n1, Spanish Flu Historical Sources, Spanish Flu History Wikipedia, Spanish Flu Homepathic Cure, Spanish Flu In Hawaii, Spanish Flu Infected, Spanish Flu Kansas, Spanish Flu Mask, Spanish Flu Origins, Spanish Flu Spring And Fall, Spanish Flu Swine Flu, What Caused Spanish Flu, What Caused The Spanish Flu, What Did Doctors Do To Fight Spanish Flu, Why Named Spanish Flu, Worldwide Innoculations 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic, Spanish Flu, Spanish Flu,