Spanish flu
Spanish flu — 1918–1920 global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus.
📖 Read the full article ↗- 📅 Jan 1918–Dec 1, 1920
- ☠ 50,000,000 deaths
- 🌐 11 language editions
- 📈 99.6/100 popularity
- Epidemic & disease
Short descriptions
- es pandemia mundial de influenza de 1918-1920 causada por el virus de la influenza A H1N1
- nl griep-pandemie in de jaren 1918-1919
- ru пандемия гриппа в 1918 году
- ar جائحة عالمية في عام 1918
- ja 1918～1919年に世界的に流行したインフルエンザ
- de Grippepandemie
- fr pandémie de grippe A (H1N1)
- pt pandemia de gripe em 1918
- it pandemia dal 1918 al 1920
- pl epidemia odmiany grypy o wyjątkowo dużej śmiertelności
📚 Books cited here, by reader rating
The Great Influenza
John M. Barry
★ 3.9 · 20 ratings
Pale rider
★ 3.5 · 4 ratings
America's Forgotten Pandemic
★ 4.0 · 2 ratings
Flu
Gina Kolata
★ 3.5 · 2 ratings
Purple death
★ 5.0 · 1 rating
If I die before I wake
Jean Little
★ 5.0 · 1 rating
A History of US- War, Peace, and All That Jazz (1918-1945) #9
Joy Hakim
★ 4.0 · 1 rating
📖Influenza
Jeremy Brown, MD, MHS
★ 4.0 · 1 rating