‘In the summer of 1918 a severe form of influenza broke out and eventually killed 70 million people around the world. The virus killed far more people than did the fighting of 1914-18. Initially the symptoms were mild but by the summer up to a third of influenza sufferers reported serious symptoms, such as bronchial pneumonia and septicemic blood poisoning. A large number died quickly after the onset of symptoms because the virus caused an uncontrollable haemorrhaging that filled the lungs, and patients would drown in their own body fluids. The pandemic inevitably had military consequences but a far higher number of civilians died. The virus swept across German, Austro-Hungarian and Turkish battle lines before it reached France. By the Autumn of 1918 the virus had spread across the Atlantic to the U.S.A. carried by the returning American soldiers. Around 450,000 civilians died in the prosperous United States, the majority of them otherwise healthy people under the age of 40. In Britain some 228,000 civilian casualties died; 400,000 in Germany. Hardest hit however was India with a reported 16 million casualties alone. For reasons unknown, in mid-1919 the pandemic withered and died out.’
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