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  2. Spanish flu - Wikipedia

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    Despite the high morbidity and mortality rates that resulted from the epidemic, the Spanish flu began to fade from public awareness over the decades until the arrival of news about bird flu and other pandemics in the 1990s and 2000s. [320] [321] This has led some historians to label the Spanish flu a "forgotten pandemic". [177]

  3. Photos show how San Francisco emerged from a lockdown too ...

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    San Francisco received national praise for its early, proactive response to the Spanish flu pandemic in the fall of 1918. As another pandemic grips the city a century later, San Francisco's past ...

  4. Worst flu season in years swamps California: 'Particularly ...

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    The trend is similar in California: 47.7% of California's children have been vaccinated against flu as of late January, also the lowest since at least the 2019-20 flu season.

  5. Timeline of influenza - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of influenza, briefly describing major events such as outbreaks, epidemics, pandemics, discoveries and developments of vaccines.In addition to specific year/period-related events, there is the seasonal flu that kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people every year and has claimed between 340 million and 1 billion human lives throughout history.

  6. Pandemic predictions and preparations prior to the COVID-19 ...

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    A June 2018 review stated that pandemic plans worldwide were inadequate because natural viruses can emerge with case fatality rates exceeding 50%. However, health professionals and policymakers planned as if pandemics would never surpass the 2.5% case fatality rate of the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918. [4]

  7. Will this pandemic ever end? Here's what happened with the ...

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    Our species lived through the Spanish flu, polio, ebola, SARS, and swine flu. How have humans gotten themselves out of pandemics in the past? And how might we get out of this one?

  8. Influenza pandemic - Wikipedia

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    The 1918 flu pandemic, commonly referred to as the Spanish flu, was a category 5 influenza pandemic caused by an unusually severe and deadly Influenza A virus strain of subtype H1N1. The difference between the influenza mortality age-distributions of the 1918 epidemic and normal epidemics.

  9. COVID-19 and flu cases are rising in California. How bad will ...

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    COVID-19 and flu are rising across California, sparking new warnings from health officials to take precautions as the wider winter holiday season looms.