pandemic
(noun)
A pandemic disease hits a wide geographical area
and affects a large proportion of the population.
Examples of pandemic in the following topics:
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The Spanish Flu
- The Spanish Flu of 1918 was a global influenza pandemic that killed millions more people than the Great War.
- In 1918, an influenza pandemic that became known as "Spanish Flu" or "Spanish Influenza" spread across the globe.
- Allied troops came to call it the "Spanish Flu," primarily because the pandemic received greater press attention after it moved from France to Spain in November 1918.
- The second wave of the pandemic struck in the autumn of 1918 and was much deadlier than the first.
- Discuss the contributing factors that led to the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918.
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The End of the War
- Additionally, somewhere between 20 and 40 million people – more than the number who died in the Great War itself – were overrun by an influenza pandemic known as “Spanish Flu” that spread throughout the world in 1918-1919.
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The War in France
- The Fall 1918 influenza pandemic took the lives of more than 25,000 men, while another 360,000 became gravely ill.
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Conclusion: The Legacy of WWI
- Additionally, somewhere between 20 and 40 million people – more than the number who died in the First World War itself – were overrun by an influenza pandemic known as “Spanish Flu” that in 1918-1919 spread throughout the world, including in the United States.