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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.

  3. Influenza pandemic - Wikipedia

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    The difference between the influenza mortality age-distributions of the 1918 epidemic and normal epidemics. Deaths per 100,000 persons in each age group, United States, for the interpandemic years 1911–1917 (dashed line) and the pandemic year 1918 (solid line). [61] The Spanish flu pandemic lasted from 1918 to 1920. [62]

  4. Laura Spinney - Wikipedia

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    In 2017 she published Pale Rider, [1] an account of the 1918 flu pandemic, [13] [14] published by Jonathan Cape who acquired the global rights in an auction in 2015. [15] Spinney indicates that the global pandemic was the biggest disaster of the 20th century, exceeding the death tolls of both World War I (17 million) and World War II (60 ...

  5. The Great Influenza - Wikipedia

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    The 1918 influenza pandemic has been declared, according to Barry's text, as the 'deadliest plague in history'. The extensiveness of this declaration can be supported through the following statements: "the greatest medical holocaust in history" [2] and "the pandemic ranks with the plague of Justinian and the Black Death as one of the three most destructive human epidemics". [3]

  6. Coughs and sneezes spread diseases - Wikipedia

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    1918 campaign on the dangers of Spanish flu Ministry of Health poster used during the Second World War, designed by H. M. Bateman. Later film produced in 1945 "Coughs and sneezes spread diseases" was a slogan first used in the United States during the 1918–20 influenza pandemic – later used in the Second World War by Ministries of Health in Commonwealth countries – to encourage good ...

  7. Anti-Mask League of San Francisco - Wikipedia

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    However, according to medical historians in 2020, the decline in deaths from influenza in San Francisco can be partly attributed to the mandatory mask-wearing policies. [ 11 ] During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States , opposition to the wearing of face masks and anti-lockdown protests led to comparisons with the Anti-Mask League.

  8. As bird flu virus mutates and jumps to humans, the potential ...

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    The H1N1 flu pandemic of 1918 killed more than 50 million people over three years, or less than 3% of those infected. By comparison, of those infected with H5N1, more than half of them died.

  9. Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Influenza pandemic of 1918

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    Original - Two American Red Cross nurses demonstrate treatment practices during the influenza pandemic of 1918. Reason Neither article had a lead image. Wasn't easy to locate suitable material; technically quite a difficult original to work with. Here's hoping the result meets our standards. Restored version of File:1918_flu_outbreak.jpg.