Practicing Success
The Global Influenza Pandemic "Spanish Flu" happened during ____ |
1818-1819 1901-1902 1918-1919 1947-1948 |
1918-1919 |
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. (Estimates of deaths vary, and some are much higher. Also known as ‘Spanish Flu’, the influenza pandemic was a global phenomenon |