1918 Influenza pandemic

[bhaigan]

The Spanish flu, also known as the 1918 influenza pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. Lasting from February 1918 to April 1920, it infected 500 million people – about a third of the world's population at the time – in four successive waves. The death toll is typically estimated to have been somewhere between 20 million and 50 million, although estimates range from a conservative 17 million to a possible high of 100 million, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in human history.

 

The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin. Although there is not universal consensus regarding where the virus originated, it spread worldwide during 1918-1919.  In the United States, it was first identified in military personnel in spring 1918.

It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. Mortality was high in people younger than 5 years old, 20-40 years old, and 65 years and older. The high mortality in healthy people, including those in the 20-40 year age group, was a unique feature of this pandemic.

While the 1918 H1N1 virus has been synthesized and evaluated, the properties that made it so devastating are not well understood. With no vaccine to protect against influenza infection and no antibiotics to treat secondary bacterial infections that can be associated with influenza infections, control efforts worldwide were limited to non-pharmaceutical interventions such as isolation, quarantine, good personal hygiene, use of disinfectants, and limitations of public gatherings, which were applied unevenly.

[bhaigan]

covid is very similar to deadly 1918 influenza

it will last for next 2 years

to completely eradicate it will take a decade

[ring_master]

And that too with not much international travel now the spread is easy 

[DesiPokiri]

21 minutes ago, bhaigan said:

covid is very similar to deadly 1918 influenza

it will last for next 2 years

to completely eradicate it will take a decade

Work from home jobs cheskovacchu 

[RoadRomeo]

 

no media, no statistics, no internet those days.

People are less crazy than now.

I'm more interested in re infection scenario's.. will immunity be sufficient for one lifetime or every year we contract covid and get immunity

[Thokkalee]

2 minutes ago, RoadRomeo said:

 

no media, no statistics, no internet those days.

People are less crazy than now.

I'm more interested in re infection scenario's.. will immunity be sufficient for one lifetime or every year we contract covid and get immunity

We will probably require booster shots every year... but you may still get infected as new strains of this virus develop as they mutate..

[Azure]

37 minutes ago, bhaigan said:

covid is very similar to deadly 1918 influenza

it will last for next 2 years

to completely eradicate it will take a decade

@Covid will never eradicate anna 

[RoadRomeo]

5 minutes ago, Thokkalee said:

We will probably require booster shots every year... but you may still get infected as new strains of this virus develop as they mutate..

looking for  the data of getting infected with new strains.

 

[Fish]

25 minutes ago, DesiPokiri said:

Work from home jobs cheskovacchu 

If work from home persists....jobs will be out sourced 

[bhaigan]

7 minutes ago, Fish said:

If work from home persists....jobs will be out sourced 

possibility 

[DesiPokiri]

6 minutes ago, Fish said:

If work from home persists....jobs will be out sourced 

Then pandemic will end H1b uncles future aa

[DesiPokiri]

Just now, bhaigan said:

possibility 

Sardhukundam padha baa

[Fish]

Just now, DesiPokiri said:

Then pandemic will end H1b uncles future aa

 I didn’t say that 

offices open chesthe bagunnu....WFH is depressing 

[bhaigan]

1 minute ago, DesiPokiri said:

Sardhukundam padha baa

ee year EAD rakapothe atlane undi paristiti

[DesiPokiri]

4 minutes ago, bhaigan said:

ee year EAD rakapothe atlane undi paristiti

Ee slavery mana valla kaadhu baa. Paisa gattiga sampadinchi business man lo mahesh Babu la aipodham padha india lo