1917 Spanish Flu
2-years before it ended killing if I recall close to 500 million people worldwide. Indiana health authorities reported the first cases of influenza in September 1918. Spanish Flu Symptoms How It Began Ended History While the flu pandemic in Indiana was less severe than in other parts of America it still afflicted an estimated 350000 Hoosiers and claimed 10000 lives between September 1918 and February 1919. 1917 spanish flu . The coronavirus arrived to the US at a time of booming stock market values. Other large influenza pandemics. The flu that killed more than six hundred and fifty thousand Americans was. In an era before antibiotics and vaccines the Spanish influenza so-called because neutral Spain was one of the few countries in 1918 where correspondents were free to report on the outbreak. The Spanish flu pandemic was the largest but not the only large recent influenza pandemic. Many questions about its origins its unusual epidemiologic features and the basis of its pa