SPANISH INFLUENZA

(See also Disease [Also Symptoms and Disorders]; Epidemics; Influenza; Pestilence; Plagues)

deaths from: w83 5/1 23; w83 5/15 25; kc 124; w75 634; g73 10/8 20-21; g72 10/8 16; w71 406; g71 10/8 16

American soldiers: w77 395

compared to World War I deaths: w77 359

fatalities underestimated: hp 147-148; g77 2/22 29

worldwide: g81 1/8 11; w80 10/15 15; hp 147-148; w79 8/1 4; w78 8/1 29

diseases that may have been triggered by: w83 5/1 23

sign of last days: w74 358-359; tp73 82; is 126; w66 40; w65 148; w61 628; pa 183; w56 614; g56 7/22 24; nh 249; lg 254-255; w30 28

Quotations

in all history there had been no swifter visitation of death: g81 1/8 11; hp 148; w77 359

most killed were in prime of life: w78 8/1 29

the medical catastrophe of all time: hp 148

vastly more efficient than two world wars: w78 8/1 29

why it began, why it ended, no one knows: w77 359

without parallel in the history of disease: hp 148