How does the spanish flu spread?

Answer 1

The influenza virus was a strain to which people had no immunity.

Answer 2

It created a overreaction of the immune system. Basically the victim's lungs would hemorrage and fill up with their own bodily fluids causing them to literally drown to death . It was a horrible death. People would be literally turning blue gasping for air as froth would spill out of their lungs and nose..... Multiply that scene by atleast 50 million and you have the Spanish flu. My grandfather had an indention on his rib cage because when he was 6 years old, he got the Spanish flu. His lungs started filling up with liquid, so a doctor took a scalpal and made an incision between his ribs into his lungs and then stuck a hose to drain the fluid. Gross, but true. His toddler brother died. Because young people have strong immune systems, the overreaction of the immune system was more acute and claimed more lives in the age range of 20 - 40. Having a healthy immune system worked against you with the 1918 virus. This Swine Flu is cause for concern, because the majority of the people are young adults, whereas normal seasonal flu claims the young and old.....ones with weak immune systems. See the link?

Answer 3

The Spanish Flu was caused by a virus back in 1918. This sickness killed 50-100 million people because there wasn't any treatment for the disease.
The Spanish flu was caused by a strain of the influenza virus H1N1, which caused a severe immune reaction from healthy individuals, which is likely what made it so deadly.

Answer 4

The Spanish Flu was believed to have originated in Spain and became a pandemic flu that struck all of the Earth's continents with a huge death toll in 1918 - 1919. Between 30 and 100 million people died in the one year pandemic. There were 17 million deaths in India alone. 100 million people represented 5% of the world population at the time.

There were no available vaccines to use, no coordinated pandemic alert or control programs, the World Health Organization did not yet exist in this time period right after World War 1 when the world was not yet fully recovered from the effects of the war.

The Spanish Flu swept the world in multiple waves, each more virulent than the first wave, then disappeared just as surprisingly as it had appeared.

Answer 5

The Spanish Flu virus was the one that caused the 1918 Influenza Pandemic with millions of deaths. It spread the same way as our seasonal flu and swine flu today, by direct person to person contact and by indirect contact with contaminated surfaces or items and from sneezes and coughs.

Answer 6

Okay. So first of all the spanish flu was not too contagious but was still contagious. It spreaded first by people who ate the infected pigs. Then the infected people were selected as soldiers and went too trenchs since the time of the WWI was trench wars. The improper hygeine system in the trenchs allowed the virus to spread in a very suprising speed. The virus spread by coughing, kissing, sex, and other contact activieties.

Answer 7

The Spanish flu spread from a simple sneeze/cough that went into another persons mouth or nose, which would cause the flu to spread.

Answer 8

In extreme cases you might be eating breakfast feeling fine and dead before lunch.

Answer 9

it didn't