mar 11, 1918 - SPANISH FLU
Description:
-675,000 deaths in the US-50 mil deaths worldwide
American experience
-It was Antigenic Shift
-WWI:
Mass movement of people coming back and forth
Trench warfare with people and animals living close
16.5 mil people died in WWI
50-100 mil people died
Figure 11: Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, ill with Spanish influenza at a hospital ward at Camp Funston
Added to timeline:
Date:
mar 11, 1918
Now
~ 107 years ago