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Spanish Flu
Spanish Flu in India
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Coincided with a drought in 1918, which led to a famine in large parts of the country. Since, hunger weakens the immune system of the body, it made large segments of the population vulnerable to the virus.
When the pandemic struck India, it became very clear that the British had ignored the healthcare in the country. The medical infrastructure was a shambles.
The outbreak then spread across the country from west and south to east and north, reaching the whole of the country by August.
The outbreak most severely affected younger people in the age group of 20 - 40, with women suffering disproportionately.
One interesting fact is that India’s leader of independence Mahatma Gandhi had the Spanish flu.
“All interest in living had ceased,” he later wrote in his autobiography.
Political Effects
Spain
A bishop in the city of Zamora told people to come to the church and prey to St.Rocco, to end the flu.
Philippines
Americans who’d occupied the islands 20 years before didn’t try to protect the local population except for a camp where Filipinos were training to join the U.S. war effort.
United States
the flu had influenced the peace conference after war. Woodrow Wilson contracted Spanish flu en route to the Paris peace conference in 1919,and he suffered cognitive harm. His illness may also have helped cause the stroke he suffered a few months later; it left him crippled and unable to persuade Congress and the Senate to back the League of Nations.
India
The death and misery wrought by the pandemic fuelled the anger against the colonisers. And people rallied behind Gandhi and the independence movement.
Russian
Lenin brought in the first modern public healthcare system (at least for urban Russians). He asked doctors to make epidemic and famine prevention their top priority because flu and famine had nearly wiped out the Russian working classes.
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Economic Effect
Many businesses,especially those in the service and entertainment industries, suffered double-digit losses in
revenue.
Businesses that specialized in health care products experienced an increase in revenues.
1918 influenza pandemic caused a shortage of labor that resulted in higher wages (at least temporarily) for workers
which led to people not having jobs,
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What made it so deadly?
Some analyses have shown the virus to be particularly deadly because it triggers a cytokine storm, which ravages the stronger immune system of young adults.
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Influenza or flu, is a virus that attacks the respiratory system. It is virus is highly contagious.
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We still don't know where the Spanish flu
originated.It might have come from France, China, Britain or United States.The first case was identified in camp Fuston, Kansas
If a infected person cough, sneezes or talks respiratory droplets transmit through the air and the person near by can breath the air. A person who touches something with the virus on it and then touches his or her mouth, eyes or nose can become infected.