Living Room Spanish Flu

24 the washington observer told of 82 new cases in town and another tragic aspect of the influenza.

Living room spanish flu. A reminder that we need to be ready for that again. Phil corio told the albuquerque journal that he d. The spanish flu also known as the 1918 flu pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic caused by the h1n1 influenza a virus lasting about 15 months from spring 1918 northern hemisphere to early summer 1919 it infected 500 million people about a third of the world s population at the time. The disease was rapidly spreading among children of school age.

As the battle against the spanish flu wore on in october 1918 a somber new reality descended upon washington. It was the room in the front of the house that had a couch some chairs and other trinkets to make the place look like home. Nearly everyone who survived the 1918 flu pandemic which claimed at least half a million american lives has since died but their memories preserved in oral history interviews shed light on its. Spanish flu creates the living room the parlor was the room families hung out in during the 19th century.

In 1918 a strain of influenza known as spanish flu caused a global pandemic spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately young old sick and otherwise healthy people all became infected and. The death toll may have been anything from 17 million to 50 million and possibly as high. The 1918 flu became known as the spanish flu because most countries were censoring coverage of the epidemic. John kirby stumbled upon his grandfather s memoir where he recalled how life started over after the 1918 spanish flu pandemic.