1、 1889? 1894 The "Russian Influenza" that swept through Western Europe affected 40% of the world's population, causing tens of millions of deaths and serious impacts. Flu history, 19 18? 1920 The Spanish flu was the most terrible one. At that time, it was World War I, and new weapons and equipment appeared in various battlefields, which quickly took the lives of the enemy. United States of America
At the beginning, it was a consistent neutral policy. 19 17, President Wilson ordered the war in order to fight for the interests of the United States in the world war.
2. 19 18 years ago, a serious cold epidemic had spread before the US troops arrived in Europe. However, the epidemic situation at this time is not very serious. However, when American troops landed in Spain, the flu spread to this country immediately, and the difficult intervention changed the pattern of World War I. At the same time, it also brought the flu epidemic to every corner of Europe, even to Spain, which lives in the palace. The picture shows American infantry being welcomed by their French counterparts in Paris. The king was not spared. In a short month, 8 million people in Spain suffered from the flu and a large number of people died. Although this plague originated in the United States, it was not taken seriously until it became popular in Spain, so this global flu is called "Spanish flu".
3. "Asian Influenza" 1957, "Hong Kong Influenza" 1968 and "Russian Influenza" 1977. 1957 During the "Asian Influenza" epidemic, 70,000 people died in the United States.
4. 1968 During the "Hong Kong Influenza" epidemic, 34,000 people were infected and died in the United States. The flu quickly spread to the whole European continent. Within a month, 3 1000 British troops on the western front were infected. In May, 10% of the British army was infected, and the powerful British navy almost lost its combat capability. In England and Wales, the death toll reached 200,000. In Paris, France, more than 1000 people die every week. In less than a year, about 400,000 people in France died of influenza. In the United States, the birthplace of influenza, the number of people who died of influenza reached 500 thousand. For allied Germany, the situation is equally bad. Statistics show that the non-combat downsizing of the German Army caused by influenza has reduced the entire army by more than 30%. 3? In August, 800,000 German soldiers died of influenza and war. In June 1 1, desperate Germany finally signed an armistice agreement.
So far, there have been major influenza and several minor influenza in the world, which have caused billions of people to get sick and tens of millions of people to die. Today, 20,000 people die of influenza every year in the United States, 65,438+0,000 people die of influenza every year in Russia, and 50,000 people develop pneumonia every year in Britain due to influenza, of which about 20% die. It is estimated that 600,000 influenza patients die every year in the world, which is more than the number of AIDS patients. The United States has listed influenza as the fifth life-threatening "killer" after heart disease, cancer, stroke and emphysema.