Pandemic 1918

[RedTailedTuna]

Biological warfare ??? me thinks

[Adimanstudios]

You survive the war as a soldier, come back home and die of spanish flu...

The irony

[MrUnicycle123]

What is this tuune? Watched this at school as studying war poetry and needed surrounding knowledge of before/after and during war events-Saw this and started dancing!

[ViCe1986]

It is outrageous to think that H1N1 could of caused mass scale deaths like the 1918 pandemic. Of course many would die especially in poor nations without access to modern medicine but modern medicine would prevent most deaths in the industrial world (especially in healthy adults).

[98bigbutt]

I don't think so because in 1918,the technology just wasn't there yet.I'm not saying we could get rid of viruses,but we've the power to stop it from speading in large proportions.The 1918 flu killed more people than all the soldiers who were killed in WW 1 combined.

[98bigbutt]

This was the last plague that it hit modern times.

[SFGRecordsPresents]

☣ haha

[squaaaaash]

Then the epidemic came. It was madness, absolute madness! Moscow was dying! Dead people everywhere, accidents, suicides even. It happened very quickly, a matter of two, three days. Then only a few of us were left. For some reason I was not affected, not affected at all. The survivors, perhaps a hundred people, met up on Red Square every evening. It was as if we were magically pulled there...."

The character Somerset in "Two Journeys"

[cyrush5n1]

influenza =adenovirus

HIV=ribovirus

[OChubbyO]

@cyrush5n1 hiv=rna vrius

[rugbylover95]

h1n1 will come bak its very likely it will mutate but we r so well prepared! if it is a bad one half a million people will die in the uk-my dad had meetings about it he had to represent liverpool schools and my friends grand dad is making the vaccine

[monkeyspanker281]

lol this is my band name its badass

[Holliegh319]

The 1918 first wave was so mild no one really noticed it- this 1st wave is noticed and it will be recombined most likely with another virus out there... could be H5N1 bird flu or even the HIV .

[sancristan]

It could recombine with H5N1, another flu virus. But with HIV????? That is science fiction my friend

[Holliegh319]

the 1918 flu was less severe than what's going around now- in this, the 1st wave of the PANDEMIC 09'- which is much worse than the seasonal flu (duh). Wait till it recombines with something more leathal perhaps H5N1 (60-80% deadly) . Oh U have no idea.

[GuiltyForVandalism]

tubercolosis kills 1 person every 20 seconds the swine flu is nothing compared to that. tubercolosis kills about 7 millions each year! swine flu? 12 people in 3 weeks

[fetsen1]

Did you people know that still today it is still the Black Death in some poor countreis.

Once a year 1000 - 2500 people die of it.

*The Swine Flu is not dangerous.

6 People died in 2 WEEKS.

That is nothing for the many billion people on this planet.

Dont be afraid of it

[lorerax1]

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

Adolf Hitler

[prsnl45]

hopefully this doesnt end up like i am legend the movie virus

[kissmyassnowplease]

my god have mercy on our souls "pandemic 2009"

[myY0UTUBEchanneI]

watch the last video I faved. it 's not very good quality but it has a link to the original PBS video on it. H1N1 was recreated in a lab because no live H1N1 existed to study : /

[myY0UTUBEchanneI]

A H1N1 virus(swine flu) caused the 1918 pandemic. The 1918 flu started in spring too. If your watching this you probably already know : )

[fluffymcdeath]

WWI ended in November of 1918. The "Spanish" flu may have started spreading as early as the spring of 1917 but was definitely recognized by March of 1918 - about 9 months before the end of the war.

[eldavoballyboy]

your understanding of viruses isn't quite sound. the thing is, the bubonic plague IS still around, it's just that we've become immune to it. if a new mutation of bubonic plague came out of the woodwork, then we'd be fucked. however h5n1 is in fact both more virulent and more lethal than the plague. it's just that we have amazing health and hygiene these days compared to when the plague struck, so when the plague hit, it hit hard and didn't stop until about 200 years later.

[allxspunkedxup]

This song rules.

[PabloJose200]

The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 wasn't caused by an avian virus like the Bird Flu. Nobody knows the origin of the Pandemic of 1918 and probably never will. Many sources though, state that it may have originated in Kansas from the burning of manurer.

[lfgefd]

its coming again kids...its coming again.

this time 100 million

[mobmam24]

my grand pa lived durin that time his wife and for grandchildren were killed by it

[PabloJose200]

People in the US have mostly forgotten it also. My school is finishing up our expedition about the Pandemic of 1918 and before they revealed to us what it was nobody had a clue

[CULAVE]

PabloJose200- By some sources its the deadliest disaster in history- of anything. Worse than WW2, The Black Death etc. Of course, different sources give different results.

[CULAVE]

HIV AIDS has probably killed about the same number now- but its more protracted I understand- first being diagnosed in 1981 so thats 27 years. The Spanish Flu pandemic seemed to have eased down in the early 1920s

[jewto0b]

No way it was worse than the black death, that killed half of europe and close to 80 million worldwide. And it's still killing today..

[CULAVE]

jewto0b- Yes, thats true. I made a mistake about that. The Black Death was indeed the biggest killer in history in proportion to the population of the time and probably overall too. But the Spanish Flu is definately in the top 5. The Plague of Justinian (541-542 ad) is not well known but was extremely deadly. As for death tolls brought about by people; WW2, Maoist Policies and the An Shi Rebellion (of 755-763) all rank among the worst.

Do you mean bubonic plague is still killing today? where?

[CULAVE]

jewto0b- It occurs to me though is that its very difficult to establish exact figures for these disasters- particularly going further back in time. Going further back we can only really have rough estimates of death tolls based on any existing relics of the time (and theres not many) and measuring this to the population of the time. I think its also fair to say that if one event is better known or closer in time than another, people presume its deadlier. An example is the Taiping Rebellion cont;

[CULAVE]

cont... in China in the mid nineteenth century. It actually is estimated to have had about the same death toll as WW1 but most people would probably refuse to believe this because it was not strongly connected to our national psyche in the way WW1 was. Nevertheless it was the deadliest civil war in history.

[jewto0b]

True, it's hard to say, however the plague was extremely well documented and there has been large amounts of studies done on it, so I would say the death toll is a safe estimate and is probably more, considering some deaths were never even documented as it was so commonplace. Also, the CDC reports about 20 people in the US contract plague each year. It's easily treated now, however people in "third world" or devloping countries still die from it.

[CULAVE]

jewtoOb- indeed; its shocking to think that cholera is now sweeping Zimbabwe- I think the last major outbreak in Britain was in 1854.

[dyehard321]

Yea! you are right... but the bubonic plague killed almost half the world...

[CULAVE]

dyehard321- True

[PabloJose200]

It actually was worse and has been stated by the World Health Orginaztion. The Pandemic killed between 20 million-100 million people Globally

[jewto0b]

That's too large of a gap to be credible I think. It doesn't matter, both were huge disasters. I don't really want to argue on which gets the credit for killing the most people, lol.

[dyehard321]

NO its not still killing today if it was then the world would probably be extinct right now... and the black death was ALOT worse. the SPanish flu pandemic only had 48 Million deaths in total

! And no the bubonic plague isnt stil killing today or the spanish flu... and if the bubonic plague was still around like it was 500 years ago, we'd all be dead right now

[jewto0b]

Actually it is still killing today and people become infected pretty regularly (CDC reports figures of around 20 people a year in the US alone become infected). This is why you need so many shots if you want to go to countries such as Africa.

It is easily cured by today's medicines and vaccines, however very poor countries do not have access to these so deaths from bubonic plague still occur in these countries.

[CULAVE]

It seems, in the UK anyway, that the Spanish Flu has been forgotten. Unlike the World Wars, the average person on the street has barely even heard of it. Thats incredible, and maybe sad, considering it was possibly the biggest killer in human history.

[SusieBirds]

The song is "La Grippe" by the Squirrel Nut Zippers, off of their album "The Inevitable"

[ryanman555]

i shall become a doctor!

[echogrrrl]

What is the song title? Who is the artist?

Thanks!

[WesternWhiteWolf]

This song is great! Can you tell me where I can find it?