The Spanish inlfuenza was an especially virulent virus that spread across the world in 1918, killing many millions of people. It was likely carried around the globe by soldiers returning from World War I (1914-1918). Both soldiers and civilians may have been made more susceptible by malnutrition -- there were famines in many of the countries where the war was waged.
As many as 500 million people became infected, and between 50 and 100 million died.
1918-1919 The Influenza Pandemic was in 1918 to 1919
March 1918 to June 1920.
Spanish Flu 1918
Flu is always caused a virus, not bacteria, so no flu epidemic will be due to a bacterial agent. This is true of the 1918 "Spanish Flu", it was caused by a virus.
Spanish Flu
It was because there was a worldwide epidemic of the spanish flu.
The Great War and the Spanish flu epidemic.
A flu epidemic is when a lot of people get the flu in a large area.
The flu epidemic.
Spanish Influenza a.k.a the Black Death
Your body has to respond to the Spanish flu before you get better, It usually takes 7 to 10 days. However the Spanish flu epidemic occurred in 1918. It was called the H1 N1 influenza.
The epidemic that killed canadians after the war, was called the spanish influenza (flu)
When you hear the word 'Epidemic' usually it's referring to a disease, but an epidemic isn't always a disease. Poverty, for example, could be considered an epidemic, and it is not a disease, unlike the Spanish Flu or Smallpox.
The Spanish Flu, also known as the Influenza.