Spanish Flu

audiobook (Unabridged) The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (The History and Legacy of the World's Deadliest Influenza Outbreak)

By David Shouse

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The spanish flu erupted and was active for two years until 1920. It spread rapidly throughout the world and ranks next only to the bubonic plague of 1346 in the magnitude of devastation that it caused.

The flu was transported through travelling soldiers as they were shipped out to various parts of the world to fight. It is estimated that between approximately 500 million people contracted the deadly virus and between 15 to 100 million people died from it.

 

Discover a plethora of topics such as

  • The world in 1918
  • The beginning of the outbreak
  • What was the spanish flu?
  • The third and final wave
  • Aftermath
  • The strange legacy of the spanish flu
  • And much more!
  • In many ways, it is hard for modern people living in first world countries to conceive of a pandemic sweeping around the world and killing millions of people, and it is even harder to believe that something as common as influenza could cause such widespread illness and death. Although the flu still takes hundreds of lives each year, most of those lost are very young or old or ill with something else that had already weakened them.

    In fact, most people contract influenza at least once, and many suffer from the flu several times in their lives and survive it with a minimum amount of medical attention.

    Spanish Flu