Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Indian Society: Demographic Structure of Indian Society

Question:

The most infamous pandemic was "Spanish Flu" which affected large parts of world occured in which year?

Options:

1947

1918

2020

1957

Correct Answer:

1918

Explanation:

The principal reasons for the decline in the death rate after 1921 were increased levels of control over famines and epidemic diseases. The latter cause was perhaps the most important. The major epidemic diseases in the past were fevers of various sorts, plague, smallpox and cholera. But the single biggest epidemic was the influenza epidemic of 1918-19, which killed as many as 170 lakh people, or about 5% of the total population of India at that time.  Also known as ‘Spanish Flu’, the influenza pandemic was a global phenomenon.