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The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 started in 1918 which was around the time when WWI would come to and end and ended in 1919. The virus came in two phases both occurring during 1918 and the second phase being what caused the deaths of tens of millions of people.

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The first phase of the Influenza pandemic struck during late spring of 1918 where it would infect people seemingly out of nowhere and without any warning. Its first sightings were named the "three-day fever"  and it resulted only a few reported deaths, with the rest of the victims recovering after few days.

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The second phase of the Influenza virus began in fall of the same year where the same virus that had struck a few months earlier resurfaced now being far more deadly than it had been before. Victims now infected with the second phase of this virus would die with days or even hours. This was because the virus caused a build up of liquid in the lungs in its victims which ended up being very lethal, suffocating its victims to death.

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As stated before the Influenza virus killed its victims by suffocating them to death. The virus spread all across the globe and had the greatest effect on urban and rural areas. Mortality rates for adults, children, and the elderly were all shockingly high with out of the 500,000,000 people infected which was about one fourth of the world's population at the time, 50,000,000 people ended up dying.

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“1918 Historical Image Gallery.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2 Mar. 2018, www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoration/historical-images.htm#. Accessed 8 Jan 2020.

“The Deadliest Flu: The Complete Story of the Discovery and Reconstruction of the 1918 Pandemic Virus.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 17 Dec. 2019, www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/reconstruction-1918-virus.html. Accessed 8 Jan 2020.

Goldsmith, Cynthia. “Public Health Image Library (PHIL).” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005, phil.cdc.gov/Details.aspx?pid=11098. Accessed 8 Jan 2020.

FLU EPIDEMIC, 1918. - The fight against influenza as reported in the "New York Times, 24 October 1918.. Fine Art. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
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Colorized image of the Influenza virus from 1918. Picture was taken through an transmission electron microscope and shows cells 18 hours after being infected

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Reporting of the Influenza pandemic in the New York Times, and was reported on October 24th 1918

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I chose to do this project because around 100 years after the Influenza Pandemic of 1918, we still don't fully understand what properties gave this virus the destructive powers that it had, and if the virus ever reemerges, we don't have a cure for it, which considering how many people it killed is somewhat intimidating.

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Shows Red Cross volunteers that were called upon because of the lack of nurses and physicians that were required in order to help the millions of the influenza victims at the time.