Spanish
Flu
: It is said to be the World’s worst pandemic on
record
; It was an unusually deadly Influenza Pandemic
lasting from
January, 1918 to December, 1920,
infecting
500
millions of people (about 25 % of the World’s
population
at that time ) with a death toll of about 50 million;
The
concerned Pathogen was the Virus named H1N1
which was first reported in Spain ; There is a hypotheses
that
the Pandemic started somewhere in
Northern China
and quickly spread
to the Western Europe when, in the
the
atmosphere of the contemporary World War
I,
Britain & France recruited a large number of Chinese
labours for the needs of various war services
;
The Flu also quickly spread to India when, on
29/05/1918, a ship carrying Indian troops reached
Bombay & affected the local population
over there
within a very short span of time ; As per
records on
06/10/2018,
768 people died on a single day ; Apart
from
Bombay, the Pandemic spread rapidly through
all over India : The mortality rate in India was 20.6 per
1000 as against 4.7 per 1000 in Britain, thus resulting in
a total death toll of 18 million in India as against 50 to 100
all over India : The mortality rate in India was 20.6 per
1000 as against 4.7 per 1000 in Britain, thus resulting in
a total death toll of 18 million in India as against 50 to 100
million Globally ; The number of such a big
casualty was
due to the fact that in 1918 India also
had suffered from a
drought, affecting a large part of the country thus
resulting in a famine & malnutrition which reduced
the immunity power of the vast country-side people
belonging
mainly to the people of
lower economic
strata
& women ;
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