This is the earliest recorded case, also known as the Spanish flu zero patient. Since the soldier, there have been flu cases in 24 training camps of the US military, while there were 36 training camps of the US military at that time. The sick soldiers returned to their homes all over the country during their vacation, and the virus spread rapidly. By the end of April, influenza cases had been found in 30 big cities in the United States.
1965438+In March 2008, 84,000 American troops went to Europe to participate in World War I. On the transport ship crossing the sea, American recruits were terminally ill and forced to be isolated in the cabin. The patient was lying on the deck and the deceased was thrown into the sea. 1965438+From April to May, 2008, the virus spread from British and French allied forces to civilians, and spread to German military camps through captured soldiers. In June, an influenza virus broke out in Germany.
God seems to have played a joke on Germany. When the Germans lost their fighting capacity because of the virus, British and French soldiers began to recover one after another. The allied forces began to counterattack in July and are about to win the first world war.
Of course, the flu did not simply end with the recovery of British and French troops. 19 18 In August, after World War I, the influenza virus reappeared, starting from France, Sierra Leone and the United States, and suddenly broke out all over the world.
Different from the first outbreak, the death rate of this virus is extremely high, and the death rate is extremely fast. Due to the ultra-aggressiveness of influenza virus, it will induce the human body to release the last big trick "cytokine storm", and the strong immune response will indiscriminately destroy the cells of the body, leading to the death of patients with acute respiratory failure. This led to the death rate of young people far exceeding that of the elderly and young people when the virus broke out for the second time.
In order to appease the people, government officials have been hiding the epidemic. However, the rising death toll completely destroyed their lies. Within six weeks, the death toll in Philadelphia was as high as 12 thousand, when the city's total population was only a few hundred thousand. Hospitals are paralyzed and there is a serious shortage of medical staff. The hospital began to refuse to accept any patients. Too many people died, there were not enough coffins, and the bodies were dug and buried in batches. In the end, the people of Britain, France and the United States fell into panic, and all kinds of rumors flew all over the sky.