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Death Toll from Pandemic Flu

Death Toll from Pandemic Flu. 1918-19 U.S. 675,000 Worldwide 50,000,000+ 1957-58 U.S. 70,000 Worldwide 1-2,000,000 1968-69 U.S. 34,000 Worldwide 700,000+. Influenza Deaths in Kansas October 1918. Massive increase in deaths due to influenza

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Death Toll from Pandemic Flu

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  1. Death Toll from Pandemic Flu 1918-19 U.S. 675,000 Worldwide 50,000,000+ 1957-58 U.S. 70,000 Worldwide 1-2,000,000 1968-69 U.S. 34,000 Worldwide 700,000+

  2. Influenza Deaths in KansasOctober 1918 • Massive increase in deaths due to influenza • Similar spikes were repeated all over the country - Deaths from all causes - Deaths from influenza www.pandemicflu.gov

  3. What Experts Say (1) The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19, which caused ≈ 50 million deaths worldwide, remains an ominous warning to public health.* Jeffery K Taubenberger MD PhD National Institute of Health *1918 - The Mother of All Pandemics, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006

  4. 1918 - The Mother of All Pandemics

  5. 1918 - The Mother of All Pandemics • 675,000 Americans died of the flu in 1918-19 • Almost half were healthy young adults • Death tolls especially high in crowded army camps • Today’s schools and campuses pose similar hazards

  6. The 1918 pandemic killed more Americans than all combat deaths in all wars in American history since 1775.* Every single city, county, and state suffered from a shortage of caskets *Statistical Summary: America's Major Wars, Louisiana State University Libraries.

  7. 1918 - The Mother of All Pandemics • Falling mortality from infectious diseases in 20th century • 1918 pandemic overshadowed all other infectious diseases combined Crude Infectious Disease Mortality Rate in the United States from 1900 Through 1996, Armstrong,JAMA 1999

  8. 1918 - The Mother of All Pandemics • 3 waves in 18 months • Second wave most severe

  9. Worldwide, the 1918-19 pandemic killed 50-100 million* people in 18 months. In comparison, HIV/AIDS ‘only’ killed 25 million in 25 years. *Johnson NP, Updating the accounts: global mortality of the 1918-1920 "Spanish" influenza pandemic, Bulletin of History of Medicine 2002

  10. 1918 - The Mother of All Pandemics All theaters closed, Seattle Japanese schoolgirls wearing masks, Tokyo 1918

  11. 1918 - The Mother of All Pandemics Tent ‘hospitals’ Spraying the streets with disinfectants

  12. 1918 - The Mother of All Pandemics Flu Orphans, Alaska 1919 In some places, almost all adults died

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