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During the same time as WW1 there was a pandemic of influenza that killed millions of people world wide. It is commonly called the Spanish Flu.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 14y agoThat would be the Spanish Influenza in 1918.
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∙ 13y agowhen solders come back from the war they brought a super flu with them. WW1 was essentially responsible for speading it
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∙ 12y agoInfluenza spread easily in the packed trenches of the Western Front. It then spread to the doctors and nurses and then they spread it to the civilian population.
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What are some world events from 1918?
World War 1 ended and the influenza pandemic started, which would kill more people.
How did the movement of soldiers during World War 1 contribute to the global influenza flu pandemic of 1918 to 1919 which killed millions of people?
Answer this question… Soldiers infected in one country carried the infection to other countries.
How did the influenza pandemic make the transition from war to peace more difficult after world war 1?
Of the United States soldiers who died in Europe, half of them fell to the influenza virus and not to the enemy. An estimated 43,000 servicemen who were mobilized for WWI died of influenza.
How did the great global influenza pandemic of 1918 help the end of world war 1?
it made most of the soldiers sick
Which of the following terms describes the spread of influenza across Europe after the war?
pandemic
Why is World War 1 called a pandemic?
It isn't, you may be thinking of the world wide Influenza outbreak of 1918-19 that killed more United States troops than the war did.
What was the major disease circulating around America during World War 1?
It's influenza and the pandemic started the year WW1 ended
What Disease were there during World War 1?
Influenza. There wasn't just the influenze pandemic of 1918! there was manyy manyy more! trench foot, lice, rats, the three-day ((early signs of influenza reapearing))
How common was the 1919 biggest killer in 1992?
The 1918 flu pandemic (the Spanish Flu) was an influenza pandemic that spread widely across the world. The pandemic lasted from March 1918 to June 1920. The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War 1 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.
Why was influenza pandemic of 1918 a significant event following world war 1?
It prevented Europe from socially or economically recovering from the war
Was there a flu outbreak after World War 1?
The Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918 was a pandemic that killed an estimated 20 million (with some estimates ranging up to 100 million) people in about 1 year. Approx. 5% of the world's population was killed.
What was happening in America in 1918?
The end of World War IThe Influenza Pandemic of 1918Woodrow Wilson was president.Ford's famous Model T was in the middle of it's 19 years of production.
