In-Flew-Enza
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Wow, here's the storey of how the slap-up flu epidemic of 1918 started inwards Boston:
One this twenty-four hours inwards 1918, 2 sailors housed at Boston's Commonwealth Pier reported to sickbay. The men were the get-go Americans stricken amongst a strain of flu that would essay far to a greater extent than unsafe than the High German army. By the goal of the week, 100 novel cases a twenty-four hours were beingness reported amid the sailors at the pier. The illness spread amongst terrifying speed through both the armed services too civilian populations. In the side past times side 24 weeks, the epidemic would send on to a greater extent than than 25,000,000 Americans. More than 675,000 would non live the illness. The flu would own got far to a greater extent than lives than the country of war too thus raging inwards Europe. Worldwide, betwixt 50,000,000and 100,000,000 people would cash inwards one's chips earlier the epidemic abated inwards December.
No illness inwards human history — including the Black Death (1347-1350) — caused thus many fatalities.
In Boston, children jumped rope too sang:
"I had a niggling bird
And its elevate was Enza
I opened the window and
In-flew-enza."
One this twenty-four hours inwards 1918, 2 sailors housed at Boston's Commonwealth Pier reported to sickbay. The men were the get-go Americans stricken amongst a strain of flu that would essay far to a greater extent than unsafe than the High German army. By the goal of the week, 100 novel cases a twenty-four hours were beingness reported amid the sailors at the pier. The illness spread amongst terrifying speed through both the armed services too civilian populations. In the side past times side 24 weeks, the epidemic would send on to a greater extent than than 25,000,000 Americans. More than 675,000 would non live the illness. The flu would own got far to a greater extent than lives than the country of war too thus raging inwards Europe. Worldwide, betwixt 50,000,000and 100,000,000 people would cash inwards one's chips earlier the epidemic abated inwards December.
No illness inwards human history — including the Black Death (1347-1350) — caused thus many fatalities.
In Boston, children jumped rope too sang:
"I had a niggling bird
And its elevate was Enza
I opened the window and
In-flew-enza."