Category: United States, 1918 Flu Pandemic
Categories: United States of America Disasters 1900-1999 | 1918 Flu Pandemic
The 1918 flu pandemic, also known as Spanish flu or Spanish influenza, though it had no special connection to Spain, (January 1918 – December 1920) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. It infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and killed 50 to 100 million of them—three to five percent of the world's population —making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history. - Wikipedia
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- The Great Pandemic - This site by the United States Department of Health and Human Services has detailed information by state with photographs, newspaper items, charts and more.
- The Forgotten Flu. The Impact of an Epidemic has selected maerial for Boston, Philiadelphia, Seattle and San Francisco.
- Work of the Sisters during the epidemic of influenza, October, 1918 first hand accounts published by the The American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, 1919.
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