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A 2009 study in Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses based on data from fourteen European countries estimated a total of 2.64 million excess deaths in Europe attributable to the Spanish flu during the major 1918–1919 phase of the pandemic, in line with the three prior studies from 1991, 2002, and 2006 that calculated a European death toll ...
List of Spanish flu cases. 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 ...
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.
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 North Africa, Europe, and Western Asia 3 Black Death: Bubonic plague: 25–50 million
The known death toll from the coronavirus in the United States will surpass the number of dead from the 1918-19 Spanish Flu within the next day or two, data suggests.
Frequency. 3–5 million severe cases per year [1][2] Deaths. >290,000–650,000 deaths per year [3][4] Influenza, commonly known as " the flu " or just " flu ", is an infectious disease caused by influenza viruses. Symptoms range from mild to severe and often include fever, runny nose, sore throat, muscle pain, headache, coughing, and fatigue.
1918 flu pandemic in India was the outbreak of an unusually deadly influenza pandemic in British India between 1918 and 1920 as a part of the worldwide Spanish flu pandemic. [1][2] Also referred to as the Bombay Influenza or the Bombay Fever in India, [3][4] the pandemic is believed to have killed up to 17–18 million people in the country, [5 ...
Deaths from Spanish flu. This category is being considered for speedy renaming to Category:Deaths from the Spanish flu pandemic in accordance with Wikipedia's category discussion policy. Any pages in this category will be recategorized (not deleted). If you disagree with its speedy renaming, please explain at this category's entry on the speedy ...