Share a picture, a link, and a quick summary about the information you found on your disease. by Cori Tucker

2025-08-26 16:24:28 UTC

Influenza - "The H1N1 influenza pandemic that swept across the world from 1918 to 1919, sometimes called “the mother of all pandemics”, involved a particularly virulent new strain of the influenza A virus."

ctucker101 — 2025-08-26 16:24:43 UTC

I found a timeline of the history of Influenza

2025-08-26 16:26:21 UTC

"We know now that influenza, or flu, is caused by a virus – but for many years it was thought to be caused by a bacterial infection. In 1892, German scientist Richard Pfeiffer isolated a small bacterium from the noses of patients with flu, naming it ‘bacillus influenzae’."

2025-08-26 16:26:29 UTC

Despite its name, researchers believe the Spanish flu most likely originated in the United States. One of the first recorded cases was on March 11, 1918, at Fort Riley in Kansas. Purple Death: The Great Flu of 1918 - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

2025-08-26 16:26:47 UTC

Alexander the Great died from Malaria June 323 BC. Malaria: The Past and the Present - PMC

2025-08-26 16:26:56 UTC

In lupus, the immune system, meant to defend against infections, produces autoantibodies that mistake the body’s own cells as foreign, causing other immune cells to mistakenly attack healthy tissues.

2025-08-26 16:27:01 UTC

About 8% of the of the U.S. population gets ill from the flu each season. https://www.cdc.gov/

2025-08-26 16:27:21 UTC

It's caused by mosquito

2025-08-26 16:27:52 UTC

The earliest piece of evidence found of leprosy was found on a skeleton in India. The skeleton was dated back 4,000 years ago.

www.britannica.com/science/leprosy/History

2025-08-26 16:28:23 UTC

Obese Man Courting a Tuberculosis Patient: Dropsy and Consumption, Early 19th Century (Caricature)

from this ive learned that tuberculosis was a beauty standard

2025-08-26 16:28:24 UTC

I have learned from this picture that Yellow Fever is a disease that has no cure. Yellow fever is a disease that is transmitted when Aedes aegypti and Haemogogus mosquitos are present. Yellow fever | World Mosquito Program

2025-08-26 16:28:54 UTC

"In fact more U.S soldiers died more from the 1918 flu than were killed in battle," Spanish Flu - Symptoms, How It Began & Ended.

2025-08-26 16:30:34 UTC

Public health | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica

2025-08-26 16:31:31 UTC

The pandemic reappeared in waves in different regions over the next two hundred years, ending ca. 750 CE https://origins.osu.edu/

2025-08-26 16:31:36 UTC

This is an aegypti mosquito it is the only mosquito that can spread the yellow fever disease.

/www.ecdc.europa.eu

2025-08-26 16:32:18 UTC

I have learned that leprosy is an ancient disease that is rare but normally is caused from poverty and not proper hygiene.

brythutc — 2025-08-26 16:33:37 UTC

Influenza has been around all throughout history including the Spanish flu. The flu also affects less people older than the age of 65 a shocking detail.