1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic

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1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic

• Tony DOyley Jr.
• Intro to Environmental Science

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Understanding Pandemic

• The American Heritage Dictionary defines pandemic
  as an epidemic

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Background of Influenza

• Influenza is caused by
• The genome contains

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How it affects..

• Can enters through different ways..

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Devastation

• This is the worst epidemic in U.S. history
• Why did they call it the Spanish flu?

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Death toll
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Devastation contd.
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Devastation contd. 2
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Influenza in Japan

• The three waves on influenza in Japan
• First wave
• Second and third wave

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Japan contd.
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In Comparison to TB
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Medications?

• There was no cure for influenza during

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Conclusions

• In comparison to Tuberculosis