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http://mentalfloss.com/article/58376/14-famous-people-who-survived-1918-flu-pandemic

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This is a life threatening problem that should be taken seriously.

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Hippocrates was the first people to describe the flu 2500 years ago. They were living in Greece at the time

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a solider

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the point of origin, lthough already in late 1917 there had been a first wave in at least 14 US military camps.

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This effects mostly your lungs and it have serious symptoms

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It was also known as the Spanish flu

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The flu also targets the throat and give the victim aching muscles and fevers

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The pandemic mostly killed young adults. In 1918–1919, 99% of pandemic influenza deaths in the U.S. occurred in people under 65, and nearly half in young adults 20 to 40 years old. In 1920, the mortality rate among people under 65 had decreased sixfold to half the mortality rate of people over 65, but still 92% of deaths occurred in people under 65. In 1918, older adults may have had partial protection caused by exposure to the 1889–1890 flu pandemic, known as the Russian flu. According to historian John M. Barry, the most vulnerable of all – "those most likely, of the most likely", to die – were pregnant women. He reported that in thirteen studies of hospitalized women in the pandemic, the death rate ranged from 23% to 71%. Of the pregnant women who survived childbirth, over one-quarter (26%) lost the child.

Another oddity was that the outbreak was widespread in the summer and autumn (in the Northern Hemisphere); influenza is usually worse in winter.

Modern analysis has shown the virus to be particularly deadly because it triggers a cytokine storm, which ravages the stronger immune system of young adults.

In fast-progressing cases, mortality was primarily from pneumonia, by virus-induced pulmonary consolidation. Slower-progressing cases featured secondary bacterial pneumonias, and there may have been neural involvement that led to mental disorders in some cases. Some deaths resulted from malnourishment.

A study – conducted by He et al. – used a mechanistic modelling approach to study the three waves of the 1918 influenza pandemic. They tried to study the factors that underlie variability in temporal patterns, and the patterns of mortality and morbidity. Their analysis suggests that temporal variations in transmission rate provide the best explanation and the variation in transmission required to generate these three waves is within biologically plausible values.

Another study by He et al. used a simple epidemic model, to incorporate three factors including school opening and closing, temperature changes over the course of the outbreak, and human behavioral changes in response to the outbreak to infer the cause of the three waves of the 1918 influenza pandemic. Their modelling results showed that all three factors are important but human behavioral responses showed the largest effects.

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The second wave of the 1918 pandemic was much deadlier than the first. The first wave had resembled typical flu epidemics; those most at risk were the sick and elderly, while younger, healthier people recovered easily. But in August, when the second wave began in France, Sierra Leone and the United States, the virus had mutated to a much deadlier form. As the American Experience Influenza 1918 episode says, October 1918 was the deadliest month of the whole pandemic

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People can die from this disease

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everyone

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William H. Sardo Jr. remembers the pine caskets stacked in the living room of his family’s house, a funeral home in Washington, D.C.

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José Ameal remembers his aunt and uncle would keep the curtains by his bed drawn "so I wouldn't see the funeral processions".

But like any four year old, Mr Ameal - Pepe to his friends and family - was curious enough to peer outside on to the streets of Luarca, a fishing town on Spain's north coast.

"So many dead," recalls Mr Ameal, now aged 103, of what he saw that autumn of 1918, when he caught the virus known around the world as Spanish flu - a pandemic that is thought to have killed at least 50 million people.

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Historian Alfred W. Crosby recorded that the flu originated in the U.S. state of Kansas

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Historian Alfred W. Crosby recorded that the flu originated in the U.S. state of Kansas

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The doctors said the the sickness would last for about 4-5 days but for some people it lasted for along time.

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Young people and other people with serious medications are more likely to get the flu and they have a higher risk at developing things like pneumococcal Muonio

The flu can develop in the throat and lungs.

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The flu has been around for millenniums

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In Auckland, so many died so quickly that 400 were buried with only a single headstone

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In Auckland, so many died so quickly that 400 were buried with only a single headstone

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People are saying that this “flu” originated from Nigeria

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“fightflu.co.nz” has an organisation in New Zealand to vaccine people for free .

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Symptoms: Normal flu symptoms of fever, nausea, aches and diarrhea. Many developed severe pneumonia attack. Dark spots would appear on the cheeks and patients would turn blue, suffocating from a lack of oxygen as lungs filled with a frothy, bloody substance

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The influenza virus was discovered in the early 1930s, and scientists developed a working vaccine by the 1940s.

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In New Zealand the epidemic started in Auckland at the beginning of October, and it quickly spread south of the other centers. All sorts of special medical centers were opened, but doctors and nurses, many of whom were badly affected themselves had great difficulty coping with the disaster. So many people died in Auckland and Wellington that even the undertakers and grave diggers found it difficult to provide proper burial services.