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Mar 18, 2020 · The most damaging pandemic of influenza — for Canada and the world — was an H1N1 virus that appeared during the First World War. Despite its unknown geographic origins, it is commonly called the Spanish flu. In 1918–19, it killed between 20 and 100 million people, including some 50,000 Canadians.
Dec 5, 2018 · A shot-in-the-dark email leads to a century-old family treasure — and hope of cracking a deadly flu’s secret. By Helen Branswell. Slides of human tissue at the University of Arizona taken...
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus.
The 1918 Flu Pandemic peaked the same month as World War I ended, and contributed to the instability around the world in the following decades. It also inspired a search for causes and cures that contributed to medical innovation in World War II, and technologies we still use today.
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Sep 27, 2017 · Nearly 100 years ago, in 1918, the world experienced the greatest tidal wave of death since the Black Death, possibly in the whole of human history. We call that tidal wave the Spanish flu, and...
Spanish Flu in Canada. The virulent Spanish flu, a devastating and previously unknown form of influenza, struck Canada hard between 1918 and 1920. This international pandemic killed approximately 50,000 people in Canada, most of whom were young adults between the ages of 20 and 40.
Nov 15, 2018 · One hundred years ago this month, the so-called Spanish flu swept across the globe infecting a third of the world's population and claiming somewhere between 50 and 100 million lives, far more than were killed in the First World War.
