1918 Pandemic

1918 Pandemic Links

• Bubonic Plague Compares the severity of bubonic plague pandemics to the Spanish Influenza pandemic, that wiped out more than 25 million people in just one year - an epidemic that started right here in the United States.
  
• Science News Online A look at the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
  
• The Spanish flu The Spanish Flu claimed more lives than the Great War. Origin, spread, symptoms, and mortality.
  
• Infectious Disease News Is another influenza pandemic coming soon? Researchers investigate Spanish influenza sample found in WWI soldier's lungs.
  
• Influenza 1918, A Venus Connection? An "American suggestion" that some viruses come from outer space led British astronomers to hypothesize that Venus was a likely origin for solar-wind borne liquefying bacterial invasions. Web page invites further consideration of the original premise.
  
• The American Experience - Influenza 1918 From PBS.
  
• Spanish influenza outbreak was a 1918 killer From the Brainerd, Minnesota Dispatch. History of the pandemic in the area.