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Signs and symptoms of Spanish Flu

 


The majority of the affected experience only the typical flu symptoms of sore throat, headache and fewer, especially during the first case. However, during the second case, disease was more serious, often complicated by bacterial pneumonia, which was often the cause of death. This more serious type could cause hellotrope cycanosis to develop whereby the skin would first develop two mahogany spots over the cheekbones which would then over the few hours spread to color the entire face blue followed by black coloration first in the extremities and then further spreading to the limbs and torso. After this, death would follow within a hours or few days coz of lungs would filled with fluid. Other signs and symptoms reporting included spontaneous mouth and nosebleeds, miscarriages for pregnant women, a peculiar smell, teeth, hair falling, dizziness, insomnia, loss of hearing and smell, blurred vision, impaired color vision.

The majority of deaths were from bacterial pneumonia, a common secondary symptoms associated with influenza. The pneumonia by itself caused common upper respiratory-tract bacteria, which were able to get into the lungs via the damaged bronchial tubes of the victims. The virus also killed the people directly by causing massive hemorrhages and edema in the lungs. Modern analysis shows the virus is particularly deadly coz it triggers a cytokine storms (overreaction of the body's immune system). The animal suffered rapidly progressive respiratory system and death through the cytokine storm. The strong immune systems of young adults were postulated to have ravaged the body, whereas the weaker immune reaction of children and middle-aged young adults resulted in fewer deaths in those groups.

SECOND WAVE - Spanish Flu

Deadly 2nd Wave of late 1918 :

The second wave began in the second half of August 1918, probably Boston and Freetown, Sierra Leone by ships from the Brest, where it had likely arrived with American troops or French recruits for naval training. 

The second wave of the 1918 pandemic was much more deadly than the first. The first wave had resembled typical flu's epidemics; those most at risk were sick and elderly, while younger, healthier people recovered easily. October 1918 was the month was the highest fatality rate of the whole pandemic. In the United States ~2,92,000 deaths were reported between September - December 1918, compared to ~26000 during the same period in 1915. The Netherlands reported 40,000+ deaths from influenza and acute respiratory disease. Mumbai reported ~15,000 deaths in a population of 1.1 million. The 1918 flu pandemic in India was especially deathly with the estimated 12.5-20 million deaths in the first quarter alone.


.....in next article we'll discuss regarding 3rd wave of SPANICH FLU... 😜 😜 😜

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

SPANISH FLU


In 1918, a pandemic which affected the people worldwide, a Spanish Flualso known as the Great influenza epidemic or 1918 influenza pandemic, was exceptionally deadly life-threatening universally influenza pandemic caused by H1N1 influenza virus. The premature cases was found in France, Germany and United kingdom in April. After 2 years, approximately, two-third of population around 500 million world-wide infected, was infected in four successive waves.

Description of Spanish Flu :

Most influenza outbreaks disproportionately kill the young and old, with higher survival rates in between, but this pandemic had unusually high morality among young adults. The virus was particularly deadly coz it triggered a cytokine storm, ravaging the stronger immune system of young adults; although the virus infection was apparently no more aggressive than previously influenza strains. Malnourishment, over_crowded medical camps and hospitals, and poor hygiene, promoted bacterial superinfection, killing most of the victims after a typically prolonged death bed.

In 1918, Spanich Flu, was the first of three flu pandemics caused by H1N1 influenza A virus; the most recent one is COVID-19, Corona virus spread by virus. In 1977, the Russian Flu was also spread by H1N1 virus, but it mostly affected the younger population.


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