Well today I have been trying to find something to blog about that might be of interest to some of my readers, I want to write an interesting blog and also blog about my products ,but first to today’s story. Have you ever read about the Spanish Flu? Well I have a book called Looking Back which is a very interesting book and I am going to blog about an article in the book called Spanish Flu so I do hope you will enjoy reading it.
1918 was a jubilant year for Canada since it marked the end of the Great War and the soldiers oversees could return to their homes.However 1918 also marked the year of the first great worldwide pandemic that produced influenza so powerful that is has often been called The Great Plague of the 20th century.More people were killed from the disease than all of the victims of the Great War with at least 20 million deaths and ten times that number who fell seriously ill from this sudden illness. In all over half the world’s population came under attack and in India alone at least 12 million people perished, mostly within a six week period in the fall of 1918 when the disease was at its worse. By 1919 North American had reported over 1 million flu deaths while even remote nations like New Zealand and the south sea islands were heavily affected.
The first reported appearance of the influenza was in Spain in the late 1917 when a Spanish Wire Service reported to the London Office that A STRANGE FORM OF DISEASE OF EPIDEMIC CHARACTER HAS APPEARED IN MADRID.
Yet the Madrid operator mistakenly added THE EPIDEMIC IS OF A MILD NATURE,NO DEATHS HAVEN BEEN REPORTED. Very quickly people started dying from the strange flu and quicky over 8 million throughout Spain fell ill from this epidemic including King Alfonso X111. Eventually most medical experts agreed that the Spanish flu could be traced to pigs and swine flu when linked to human bacillus producing a killer strain of influenza that attacked the human lungs in a deadly fashion.
It’s first appearance outside of Spain was at military bases and camps throughout Europe
As tens of thousands of British, American, French, Canadians and German troops were struck down with this mysterious “three day grippe” This brought a lot of fear for everyone. Diamond workers in South Africa, Dock workers in Hong Kong,Copper miners in Peru, Road workers in Bombay were affected, People young and old were affected especially pregnant mothers. Symptons was a dry cough after a 2 day incubation then headaches ,drowsiness, chills and a soaring fever reaching 104 degrees ,yet within a few days the victim would either be cured or dead. Instead of fighting the influenza with fresh air,exercise and a healthy diet of fruit and vegetables people became mistakenly convinced that the flu bug could invade their homes through open windows and doors. So they sealed their windows and doors and clean ventilation became unavailable allowing this disease to spread more quickly. Once this Spanish Flu was recognized as influenza ,its spread through coughing and spitting was identified and a concerned effort was mounted to eliminate its future growth, innoculations, and vaccines were given and the wearing of mask in public quickly became law. Stopping groups from forming in churches, meetings became effective. Yet by the time this great illness began to subside in November six million deaths had been reported. This was a sad time in our history. Hopefully let’s all hope nothing this bad happens again.
Now changing the subject, I am always trying to think of creating something different and something new in my store at
http://www.zazzle.com/allicor* I am adding a few of my latest products, but I have many more various products in my store, when you have time, get your favorite beverage ,get comfortable and do some window shopping in my store, you just may see something that you like.
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