The Influenza Pandemic of 1918

What was the Influenza Pandemic known as?

"Spanish Flue" or "La Grippe"

In the two years that the flu ravaged the earth, how much of the world's population was infected?

1/5

The effect of the influenza epidemic was so severe that the average life span in the US was depressed by how many years?

10

In India, the mortality rate was around 50 deaths from the flu per how many people?

1000

What was the mortality rate of the 1918 epidemic?

2.5%

How many times higher was the death rate for 15-34 year olds of the flu and pneumonia in 1918 than previous years?

20 times

The flu was most deadly for people ages ____ to ____.

20 to 40

What percentage of Americans did the flu infect?

28%

An estimated ______________ servicemen mobilized for WWI died of the flu.

43,000

Approximately how many Americans died of the flu during the pandemic?

675,000 (10 times as many as in WWI)

The Spanish Flu killed how many in May?

8 million

The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than what war?

World War I (Great War)

Approximately how many people were killed during the pandemic?

between 20 and 40 million people

Some allies thought the epidemic was a what used by the Germans?

biological weapon

True or False? The pattern of morbidity was usual.

false

Of the US soldiers who died in Europe, ______ of them fell to the flu.

half

How did the flu spread?

human carriers, trade routes, and shipping lines

Scientists found ____________ to be linked with more severe epidemics

humidity

True or False? More people died of influenza in a single year than in four years of The Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351

true