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    • [DOC File]1918 Pandemic Influenza in Maine

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      1918 Pandemic - National Impact. Nationally, about 675,000 died from influenza out of 105 million total population. The death rate was higher in 1918 than in any year in the U.S. before or since. In 1 ½ years of combat during WWI, the U.S. Army lost 34,000. 24,000 of them died from the influenza during the 8 weeks in the fall of 1918.


    • [DOC File]Delaware was hit hard by 1918 pandemic

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      1918 SPANISH FLU PANDEMIC. The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than World War I, at somewhere between 20 million and 50 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four years of the Black Death from 1347 to 1351.


    • [DOC File]Econ of Disasters – Unit Introduction

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      The Spanish Flu. Dates: March, 1918 – June, 1919. Type: Pandemic influenza. The name, Spanish flu, comes from the highly publicized death toll in Spain. Spain was not involved in the war and newspaper coverage of the epidemic was not suppressed there as it was among the Allied nations.


    • [DOC File]Alexandria Pandemic Flu Mass Fatality Plan

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      Utilizing a pandemic influenza outbreak as an example, assuming two pandemic waves of six weeks each and a five percent crude annual all causes death rate (similar to 1918), about 10,000 deaths per week per wave would occur in Virginia (This is more than 10 times the usual rate of about 900 deaths per week).


    • VOLCANIC HAZARD - Pierce County, WA

      Pandemic refers to an epidemic that has spread throughout a larger geographic area impacting multiple countries or continents. Types. The best known types of pandemics are influenza pandemics. These have been some of the deadliest plagues in history. It is estimated that, worldwide, the 1918 flu pandemic killed over 50,000,000 people.


    • [DOC File]Loudoun County Public Schools / Overview

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      On March 4, 1918, as the nation mobilized for war, Private Albert Gitchell reported to an Army hospital in Kansas. He was diagnosed with the flu, a disease doctors knew little about. Before the year was out, America would be ravaged by a flu epidemic that killed 675,000--more than in all the wars of this century combined--before disappearing as mysteriously as it began.


    • [DOC File]The New York Times March 14, 2004

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      Mar 04, 2014 · The 1918 influenza pandemic killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has in 24 years. In the United States, about one-quarter of the population, more than 25 million people, took ill, and about 675,000 died (a comparable figure for today's population would be 1,750,000).


    • [DOC File]Pandemic flu links for news & background info

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      Since the 16th century, there has been an average of about three flu pandemics per century. While the 1918 pandemic is estimated to have killed 50 to 100 million people,,, the most recent pandemic, the 2009 “swine flu,” was very much milder.


    • [DOC File]Survivors Remember 1918 Flu

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      Sardo is among the last survivors of the 1918 flu pandemic. Their stories offer a glimpse at the forgotten history of one of the world’s worst plagues, when the virus killed at least 50 million people and perhaps as many as 100 million. More than 600,000 people in the United States died of what was then called “Spanish Influenza.”


    • [DOC File]City of Bloomington MN

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      The 1918 flu, “The Great Influenza” as a recent book titles it, erupted during the last year of World War I. It caused especially strong symptoms and extremely high mortality rates. It is estimated that the worldwide death toll was between 20 million and 50 million. Purpose of Pandemic Flu Planning . The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified six phases in a Pandemic Alert System.


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