What were the symptoms of the Influenza in 1918?

Answer 1

A seasonal, respiratory infection, flu is responsible for about three to five million cases of severe illness, and about 250,000 to 500,000 deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Periodically, however, the viral infection becomes much more devastating: A pandemic in 1918 killed about 50 million people worldwide. As we learned from "Swine Flu" and "bird flu" scares in recent years, some influenza viruses can jump between species.

Answer 2

Although influenza or "the flu" has seen many mutations of strains, the symptoms of influenza have not changed much, if at all, over the centuries.

As far as symptoms, "the flu" can attack in 2 ways: in the respiratory system and in the gastro-intestinal system.

In the respiratory system, the flu causes:

• body aches and pain
• dry or produtive cough
• sore throat
• sinus symptoms

In the gastro-intestinal system, the flu causes:

• gastric distress, dyspepsia
• nausea
• anorexia - that is, the loss of appetite
• vomiting
• diarrhea
• fluid and electrolyte imbalances

Respiratory flus usually cause the most deaths since the disease is airborn and easily passed from person to person. Plus, flu can easily turn into pneumonia and most deaths occur from flu-related pneumonia rather than "the flu" itself.

In 1918, most industrialized cities also had considerable air pollution which impairs the respiratory system. Areas with coal mines already had many older miners suffering from what we now call Black Lung. Many other people had chronic Asthma and emphysema but without the respiratory medications we use today. Anyone with a respiratory condition was much more suseptible to respiratory diseases and resulting death from the simple flu.

Even today, flu claims thousands of lives in the USA every year and many more thousands worldwide, and still, for largely the same reasons as in previous decades. The youngest, the oldest, and those with chronic respiratory problems are still at the highest risk of flu-related deaths.
sneezing, coughing, and puking, and puking, and puking.
Some of the common symptoms of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic were:

high fever, headache, delirium, vomit, diarrhea, nosebleed, severe cough, and pneumonia.
explosive diarrhea!

Answer 3

fever,nausea,aches, and diarrhea