What Was The Spanish Influenza In 1918

The Spanish Influenza
The Spanish Influenza was a disaster in the year 1918 because many people began to get the cold or as the Spanish call it “La Grippe”. The Spanish influenza was caused by people having the H5N1 virus. The virus in the year 1918 killed about five-hundred million people and only about fifty-million were victims of the Spanish influenza. The Spanish Influenza came spreading from China and it came a huge disaster because nobody knew how it all began. The Spanish Influenza began in the year 1918 through 1919 and killed more people than the Great War which is referred to as World War I. The influenza caused about a fifth of the earth’s population to get infected from the disease. Today, society recognizes this awful disease as the Spanish Influenza of 1918; however, it is also referred to as the ‘Forgotten Flu’ because of the neglect that it receives from American society.
Even though the spanish flu did have the same symptoms as having the cold. The Spanish flu began in certain places China, Britain, and other places but according to research it began in a camp in Kansas but did the most damage in China. Even though people think it did came from Spain and blame it on them it did not it got its name as the Spanish Flu because one man got the flu and everyone heard about it from them and thought it was originated from Spain. The main symptoms for the Spanish flu were headaches, stomach ache, fever, and a runny nose. People were not the only ones infected animals were also infected. Out of the every people in population the middle age were the ones to get the most severe infection. People who died from the flu were around in their twenties through their thirties. Babies who were born during the era were in severe