https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0 Made with the strength to succeed en-us 2016-12-07 16:26:03 UTC 2025-10-08 13:50:59 UTC hello@padlet.com ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142337785 January 1918 – December 1920]]> 2016-12-07 16:32:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142337785 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142338008 An unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus.]]> 2016-12-07 16:33:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142338008 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142338637  It infected 500 million people across the world, and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million people (3-5% of the world's population).]]> 2016-12-07 16:35:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142338637 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142339308 Life expectancy dropped by about 12 years.]]> 2016-12-07 16:36:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142339308 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142339662 The 1918 pandemic killed mainly healthy young adults.]]> 2016-12-07 16:37:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142339662 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142340529 The virus kills through a cytokine storm (overreaction of the body's immune system).
The immune reactions of young adults ruin the body, and the weaker immune systems of children and older adults resulted in fewer deaths among those groups. In many victims, the influenza virus had invaded their lungs and caused pneumonia.]]> 2016-12-07 16:38:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142340529 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142342022 To keep morale, censors minimized reports of illness in Germany, Britain, France, and the United States. Papers were free to report the flu's effects in Spain, creating a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit.]]> 2016-12-07 16:42:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142342022 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142343763 Work by a British team has identified the major troop staging and hospital camp in Étaples, France as certainly being the center of the 1918 flu pandemic.]]> 2016-12-07 16:47:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142343763 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142344777 Some hypothesized the flu originated in East Asia.  Supposedly, the virus has come from China, mutating in the United States near Boston and spreading to France, Europe's battlefields, and then Europe.]]> 2016-12-07 16:49:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142344777 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142346178 There is evidence that the virus had been circulating in the European armies years before the 1918 pandemic.]]> 2016-12-07 16:53:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142346178 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142347110 Increased travel was an important factor for the worldwide occurrence of the Spanish flu. Modern transportation systems made it easier for soldiers, sailors, and civilian travelers to spread the disease.]]> 2016-12-07 16:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142347110 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142348098 An estimated 10% to 20% of those who were infected died.]]> 2016-12-07 16:58:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142348098 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142348449 An estimate says the virus has killed 25 million people in its first 25 weeks. Older estimates say it killed 40–50 million people, while current estimates say 50-100 million people worldwide were killed.]]> 2016-12-07 16:59:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142348449 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142349082 The virus has been described as "the greatest medical holocaust in history".]]> 2016-12-07 17:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142349082 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142349397 17 million people died in India, (about 5% of the population).]]> 2016-12-07 17:01:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142349397 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142349994 In Japan, of the 23 million people who were affected, 390,000 died.]]> 2016-12-07 17:03:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142349994 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142350132 In the U.S. about 28% of the population suffered, and 500,000 to 675,000 died.]]> 2016-12-07 17:03:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142350132 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142350296 Native American tribes were hard hit. In the Four Corners area, 3,293 deaths were registered among Native Americans.]]> 2016-12-07 17:04:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/142350296 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143393035 At that time, there were no effective drugs or vaccines to treat this killer flu strain or prevent its spread.]]> 2016-12-13 15:46:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143393035 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143393901 In the U.S., citizens were ordered to wear masks. Schools, theaters and other public places were shuttered.]]> 2016-12-13 15:48:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143393901 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143394571 The virus attacks the respiratory system and is highly contagious. When an infected person coughs, sneezes or talks, respiratory droplets are generated and transmitted into the air. Then, they can be inhaled by anyone nearby. A person who touches something with the virus on it and then touches his or her mouth, eyes or nose can become infected.]]> 2016-12-13 15:50:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143394571 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143395450 A flu pandemic occurs when an especially virulent new influenza strain for which there’s little or no immunity appears and spreads quickly from person-to-person around the globe.]]> 2016-12-13 15:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143395450 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143395868 The first wave of the 1918 pandemic occurred in the spring. The sick usually recovered after a few days, and the number of reported deaths was low. The sick only experienced flu symptoms such as chills, fever and fatigue. ]]> 2016-12-13 15:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143395868 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143396582 A second, highly contagious wave of influenza appeared with a vengeance in the fall of 1918. Victims died within hours or days of their symptoms appearing, their skin turning blue and their lungs filling with fluid that caused them to suffocate.]]> 2016-12-13 15:56:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143396582 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143396863 Even Spain’s king, Alfonso XIII (1886-1931), contracted the "Spanish Flu".]]> 2016-12-13 15:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143396863 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143397258 More U.S. soldiers died from the 1918 flu than were killed in battle during the war. Forty percent of the U.S. Navy was hit with the flu, while 36 percent of the Army became ill.]]> 2016-12-13 15:58:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143397258 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143397541 President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) contracted the flu in early 1919 while he was negotiating the Treaty of Versailles.]]> 2016-12-13 15:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143397541 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143398277 Businesses were forced to shut down because too many employees were sick, and basic services such as garbage collection were hindered. Also, there weren’t enough farm workers to harvest crops. ]]> 2016-12-13 16:01:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143398277 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143398877 By the summer of 1919, the flu pandemic came to an end. People who were infected either died or developed immunity. ]]> 2016-12-13 16:03:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143398877 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143399283 In 2008, researchers announced they’d discovered what made the 1918 flu so deadly: A group of three genes enabled the virus to weaken a victim’s bronchial tubes and lungs and clear the way for bacterial pneumonia.]]> 2016-12-13 16:04:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143399283 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143405917 This Padlet informs you about the 1918 Flu Pandemic, known as "The Spanish Flu". Below, you find 30 facts about the flu, its consequences, the victims, its course, and the center.]]> 2016-12-13 16:23:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143405917 ekratzke19 https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143406670 I hope you liked my padlet about the Spanish Flu. ]]> 2016-12-13 16:25:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ekratzke19/tt496f5sjut0/wish/143406670