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Sep 21, 2021 · Symptoms of the Spanish flu were similar to the symptoms we all watch out for during flu season. However, Spanish flu symptoms were more severe and included: A sudden, and sometimes very high, fever. Dry cough. Headache and body aches. Sore throat. Chills.
Oct 12, 2010 · Spanish Flu Symptoms. The first wave of the 1918 pandemic occurred in the spring and was generally mild. The sick, who experienced such typical flu symptoms as chills, fever and fatigue, usually ...
Sep 27, 2017 · September 27, 2017. American Expeditionary Force victims of the flu pandemic at U.S. Army Camp Hospital no. 45 in Aix-les-Bains, France, in 1918. Wikipedia. Nearly 100 years ago, in 1918, the ...
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in the state of Kansas in the United States, with further cases recorded in France ...
The 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic was caused by a founder H1N1 influenza A virus. The three subsequent pandemics of 1957, 1968, and 2009 (black arrows) were caused by descendants of the 1918 virus, which acquired one or more genes through reassortment . Colored horizontal lines reflect the years of annual epidemics of seasonal influenza that ...
- Jeffery K. Taubenberger, John C. Kash, David M. Morens
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Oct 31, 2018 · The 1918 flu is thought to have only just evolved from a strain that typically infected birds – acquiring mutations that allowed it to infect the upper respiratory system. This meant that it ...
Mar 23, 2020 · The claim: The 1918 flu pandemic became known as the “Spanish flu” because wartime censors minimized reports of the illness while the Spanish press did not. On March 20, the Facebook page ...
