LSC 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: 1918 Flu Pandemic, Cytokine, Body Fluid
4 Jan 2018
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1:24 pm: origin, heavily debated and still not confirmed, chinese. From agriculture where pigs, humans, and birds are often together in tight quarters. Immigration of 96,000 workers to help out british and french troops. Lesser mortality rate in the chinese which suggests that they had already gained immunity from the first wave: november 1917 respiratory illness in china was similar to flu symptoms, a lot of them sent to, french war trenches. This creates more inflammation and it can spread. h1n1 flu: rapidly mutated due to large contact and medicine was not amazing back then and the first flu vaccine was not created until 1938, well after the epidemic. Additionally, people thought it was caused by a bacteria called haemophilus influenzae. Sick soldiers were often transported and this made the spreading even easier as it made the virus go cross country and everyone was kept in tight quarters: had four waves, each time more lethal than the next.
