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Spanish flu killed very many people in regions that did not directly participate in WWI, so civilians (as opposed to recruits sent overseas) should not be affec

Spanish flu killed very many people in regions that did not directly participate in WWI, so civilians (as opposed to recruits sent overseas) should not be affected by the war; e.g. India, Indonesia, etc. The half a million people who died of the Spanish flu in USA did not die because lots of wounded in the same place and scarred lungs from poison gas.

nabla9 7y ago
In the US roughly half present of the population died. It killed roughly ~5% of the world's population. btw. I did not say WWII was the single cause for high mortality. Hygiene, malnutrition etc. contributed. And the virus itself had higher mortality rate than usual, but not as much as previously thought.
- PeterisP 7y ago
  Do you have a source for that 8-22% of population died, which seems an extremely large, unrealistic number? E.g. https://www.quora.com/Which-country-was-most-affected-by-the-Spanish-Flu?share=1 https://www.quora.com/Which-country-was-most-affected-by-the... cites some resource which shows an estimate of 2.3 M people dead in Europe, and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4634693/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4634693/ shows an estimate of 2.6 M excess deaths in Europe i.e. 1.1% of population. The vast majority of the worldwide deaths from Spanish flu were in Asia; the region with most deaths was India.
  - nabla9 7y ago
    Sorry. Copied wrong numbers. In europe 1.1%. >Whatever is taken as estimation of the American pandemic death burden, it is well below the European estimations we provide and others have provided. A possible explanation is that, at the end of WW1, Europe was characterised by massive civilian and army movements, a health care system put at its minimum and frail populations. This has very likely heavily impacted the European death toll. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4634693/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4634693/
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nabla9 7y ago

In the US roughly half present of the population died. It killed roughly ~5% of the world's population. btw. I did not say WWII was the single cause for high mortality. Hygiene, malnutrition etc. contributed. And the virus itself had higher mortality rate than usual, but not as much as previously thought.

PeterisP 7y ago
Do you have a source for that 8-22% of population died, which seems an extremely large, unrealistic number? E.g. https://www.quora.com/Which-country-was-most-affected-by-the-Spanish-Flu?share=1 https://www.quora.com/Which-country-was-most-affected-by-the... cites some resource which shows an estimate of 2.3 M people dead in Europe, and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4634693/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4634693/ shows an estimate of 2.6 M excess deaths in Europe i.e. 1.1% of population. The vast majority of the worldwide deaths from Spanish flu were in Asia; the region with most deaths was India.
- nabla9 7y ago
  Sorry. Copied wrong numbers. In europe 1.1%. >Whatever is taken as estimation of the American pandemic death burden, it is well below the European estimations we provide and others have provided. A possible explanation is that, at the end of WW1, Europe was characterised by massive civilian and army movements, a health care system put at its minimum and frail populations. This has very likely heavily impacted the European death toll. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4634693/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4634693/
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