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When humans became infected with the 1918 pandemic flu which was originally a bird flu we also passed it on to pigs. Troops deployed en masse for the war effort in Europe they carried the Spanish flu with them. Coronavirus Is Very Different From The Spanish Flu Of 1918 Here S How The New York Times The Illustrated London News wrote that the 1918 flu was so mild as to show that the original virus is becoming attenuated by frequent transmission Sir Arthur Newsholme chief medical officer of. How did the 1918 flu spread . What makes the 1918 flu unique is that it simultaneously spread in three waves within one year affecting three distinct regions. During the flu pandemic of 1918 the New York City health commissioner tried to slow the transmission of the flu by ordering businesses to open and close on staggered. The war also enabled the virus to spread and diffuse. This meant that it could. The conditions of World War I overcrowding and global troop movement helped the 1918 fl...

Perhaps the 18891890 flu pandemic or the Russian flu afforded. Some of them have to do with the inherent biology of that virus and some of them with the state of the world at the time. Social And Economic Impacts Of The 1918 Influenza Epidemic Nber Although it remains uncertain where the virus first emerged it quickly spread through western Europe and by July it had spread to Poland. How was the spanish flu spread . The first hit the United States in the spring of 1918 but was mild and went almost unnoticed. Pandemics that Changed History. This strain was so infectious that by the end of October it had spread from coast to coast and had a morbidity rate of about 28 percent. Spain remained neutral throughout World War I and its press freely reported its flu cases including when the Spanish king Alfonso XIII contracted it in the spring of 1918. The Russian Flu pandemic of 1977-78 was caused by the same H1N1 virus that caused the Spanish flu. It was caused by an H1N1 virus wi...