18 oct. 1918 - The Great Influenza

Description:

Complications: Bacteria Super Infections, Cardiac Complications, Myocarditis, Neurological Involvement, Encephalitis, Type B virus can produce Reye's Syndrome, Degenerate changes in the Brain and Liver.
Symptoms: Blue in the face, coughing up blood, hemorrhaging (of the lungs), death occurred in hours or next day.
Effects: Health care workers became too sick to take care of patients, Most of the deaths came from healthy adults and kids.
Cause: When it gets colder outside people stand closer together and end up spreading it easier - not wearing flu masks - main reason is Antigentic Drift where the flu virus changes every year so slightly however when a pandemic happens such as the great influenza it's caused by the Shift.

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