Showing posts with label First Wave. Show all posts
Showing posts with label First Wave. Show all posts

FIRST WAVE - Spanish Flu


The pandemic is conventionally marked as having begun on 4th march, 1918. The first wave of the Flu lasted from the first quarter of 1918 was relatively mild. Morality rates were not appreciably above normal; in the United States ~75,000 flu-related deaths were reported in the first six months of 1918 as compared to ~63,000 deaths during the same period in 1915. In Madrid, Spain fewer than 1,000 people died from influenza between May and June 1918. There were no reported quarantines during the first quarter of 1918. However the first wave spread a significant disruption in the military operation of World War 1, with three quarters of French troops, half the British forces, and over 9,00,000 German soldiers sick. 


.......we'll discuss 2nd wave of spanich Flu in next article