Pandemic of 1918

The Pandemic of 1918 - There has been an epidemic from the flu in our country before.  In Philadelphia, PA, historian Alfred Crosby found out that 12,000 people died of pneumonia and flu in October 1918. 759 died in one single day. October was the worst month for the first pandemic to hit the United States.  The pandemic of 1918 took more lives than all of the Wars in that century put together.  Over 30 million people died in 1918.  Businesses, schools, banks, everything was closed to the public.  However, nothing could stop the flu.  It was an airborne virus and doctors couldn’t even see a virus under their microscopes back then.  It was like looking for a needle in a haystack, and they couldn’t even see the needle, it was so small.

Discovery of the

 Bird Flu

The Pandemic of 1918

How Fast Does the Bird Flu Virus Spread?

Prior to October 2005

The Bird Flu IS Spreading