Re:How the 1918 Flu Spread Across America (2017)
by Seenso on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:47PM
(#22446728)
>> It's worth noting that the 1918 flu was unique in that it killed many young, healthy people.
> There were two waves to the Spanish Flu. Wave 1 started like the standard flu - it was mild, hitting mostly the old and ill, and not terribly deadly. Wave 2 is when it mutated, spread like wildfire, and killed 2% of the world population.
That's sounds similar to the 1977 swine flu. It mainly infected people in their 20s or younger, because it was likely a lab escape of a then-extinct 1950s flu strain. Older people were unaffected because they had already acquired immunity.
> There were two waves to the Spanish Flu. Wave 1 started like the standard flu - it was mild, hitting mostly the old and ill, and not terribly deadly. Wave 2 is when it mutated, spread like wildfire, and killed 2% of the world population.
That's sounds similar to the 1977 swine flu. It mainly infected people in their 20s or younger, because it was likely a lab escape of a then-extinct 1950s flu strain. Older people were unaffected because they had already acquired immunity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H1N1...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4542197/