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I would have thought the 1918 flu must have done. Eventually people stopped dying of it, and it's not because there was a vaccine.
by roywiggins 6y ago
I would have thought the 1918 flu must have done. Eventually people stopped dying of it, and it's not because there was a vaccine.
- libertine 6y agoWell influenza is still around, H1N1 is still around, and we have vaccinations for it, so I think it never "ended".
- roywiggins 6y agoInfection with one strain of flu doesn't provide immunity to the other strains of flu, even ones in the same family (different H1N1s, etc). That's why you need a new vaccine every year. That doesn't mean herd immunity wasn't eventually reached for the strain that killed people in 1918. If everyone is either dead or recovered, the virus is simply not going to spread like it did when it was new.