WOH-1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Dharma, Evolutionary Pressure, Indian Nationalism
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The spanish flu killed an estimate of 50-100 million people worldwide. This is an astronomical number; most lives taken ever in the history of the world d. By the end of this pandemic, 1/3 of humanity would have contracted this disease. The virus responsible for the spanish u was h1n1 (swine u) Not clear where exactly it came from - probably made the jump from pigs to people just as the 1st world war was starting to wind down. Not too sure where it started; it"s spread however was a consequence of the 1st world war. Some of the rst cases of spanish flu reported was in kansa on. Fort reily; when the soldiers from kansas were shipped o to. France, they brought the spanish flu with them. The disease was passed along to people all over the world. There were some peculiarities on the western front of the war that made the spanish flu strain particularly deadly .
