1918: This is the virus that infected nearly all the people on earth and killed 50 million people

The Spanish pandemic was an unusual flu pandemic, one of two pandemics involving the grey virus H1N1. This pandemic infected 500 million people worldwide. [1.7 billion was estimated to be the general world population at the time]

H1N1 virus

It is reported that between 50 million and 100 million people died from this disease, making it the deadliest epidemic in human history.

Historical and epidemiological records are inaccurate to identify with accuracy the geographical origin of pandemic, writes Periscope.

Infectious diseases had only limited people's life expectancy at the beginning of the 20th century to 12 years less lives on average in the United States alone since the first year of pandemic.

This disease had not chosen its victims, killing young and old. To maintain morality, war sensors [that was ending, World War I] were minimized and reported on disease and morality in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States. The newspapers were free to report on the epidemic effects in neutral Spain [even King Alfonso XIII's serious illness]. These articles gave the false impression that Spain was especially hit with the worst, even giving it the Spanish name “grip”.

Scientists have offered a large number of explanations for the extremely high mortality of this pandemic. Some tests have shown the virus to be particularly lethal because it caused the cytokinous storm, which destroyed the youth's immune system.

A country where French troops and a hospital camp in Etables, France, had been identified by researchers as the center where this murderous group had started. The research was published in 1999 by a British team of scientists, led by virologist John Oxford.

By late 1917, military pathologists had reported the beginning of a new disease of high immorality that they later recognized as the flu. Overcrowded camps and hospitals were an ideal place for the distribution of respiratory viruses. Hospitals had treated thousands of victims of escape attacks, and other wounds of war. One hundred thousand soldiers had passed through that camp every day. pigs and chickens were also raised there, and they were regularly brought for food from neighboring villages. /Periscope