The History of The Spanish Flu
The Spanish flu is one of the world’s most giant
disasters and there is no way to tell the cost to people emotionally
because such an enormous number of lives were lost. The Spanish flu
killed more people worldwide than the first world war. All told the
Spanish flu took anywhere from 20 million to 40 million lives all
over the world. Never before or since has one single sickness killed
so many people as the Spanish flu.
The Spanish flu hit just as people were getting
used to the idea that peace was finally in the works. SO just as
people were happy that their husbands and sons were finally coming
home they would get the Spanish flu and die. Just as things seemed
to be getting better all over the world they took yet another turn
to the worse with the Spanish flu.
Spanish flu showed up all over the world and it
was a far different flu than any in the past for more than one
reason. Of course the sheer number of people that the Spanish flu
killed was unusual but it was not just that. Another unusual aspect
of the Spanish flu was who it killed. Most of those who died from
the Spanish flu were between the ages of 20 and 40. This is odd
because most flu’s will kill the very young and the very old because
they tend to have less immunities to the flu. But the Spanish flu
was completely different than anything that the world had ever seen
before.
Over 28% of Americans were sickened by the Spanish
flu and in the States the average life span was cut drastically. It
is believed that the life span of an American after the Spanish flu
hit was ten years less than it had been before. The Spanish flu is
one of the worst things that have ever happened to the world, the
entire world.
If you lived in America you were 20 times more
likely to die if you were in your twenties than before the Spanish
flu came to town. The Spanish flu killed quickly and it killed
mercilessly. Those who caught the Spanish flu would die terrible
deaths full of choking and not being able to get air. Some say that
you could be felled by the Spanish flu within a few hours. Children
even had little rhymes about the Spanish flu that they would sing to
themselves.
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