Did you know about the Spanish Flu back between 1918-1920?
The Spanish Flu was formerly known as 1918 Pandemic and the outbreak started in January 1918, just after the First World War to December 1920. The first reported of this influenza was in Spain,, and it was a respiratory virus. It is similar to coronavirus,, which has three combines of respiratory, fever and cough today. But the strain of coronavirus is unlikely different from the Spanish Flu but still have a similar strain. The Spanish Flu strain was H1N1 where else Coronavirus strain is Covid-19. With the Coronavirus, it is possible to have mutated by any animal and migrated to a human. The infected human became mutated and migrated to many other people. But we do not have an answer for this type of Coronavirus.
The hypotheses about the Spanish Flu came from a British team, led by virologist John Syndey Oxford in the work of research in 1999. His team believed influenza came from the military camp in Étaples, Northern France in 1917 where the medical doctors reported one set of the new virus of high mortality and this medical team claimed it was a flu. The military camp and a hospital was overcrowding which was an ideal site for spreading of a respiratory virus. There were more than 100,000 soldiers, even nurses passed through this camp and hospital where the soldiers were treated for chemical attacks and other symptoms from the battles. This camp and hospital were closed to the piggery and poultry as food supplies bought in from the nearby villages. This strain harboured in birds, then mutated before migrated to pigs. Yes, it was the same pattern to Swine Flu and Avian Flu several years ago, but in different strains of the virus. Unfortunately, it killed up to 50,000,000 people around the world. In the United States, quick learning to stop spreading the Spanish Flu was the flattened of the curve – social distancing. Here is a link to the flattened of the curve Flattened the curve
How did the Spanish Flu come to New Zealand?
Most people believed the steamship SS Niagara sailed into Waitemata Harbour. On this ship, there were many soldiers, a Prime Minister – William Massey along with his team came home from France via London, England. The number of New Zealanders was nearly 10,000, and the worst hit was Māori people while they suffered heavily than the rest of New Zealanders, young people between 15 years old and 44 years old.
An excellent website for reading can be found here – Influenza in New Zealand
This is why our country along with the other country opt to lock down to prevent social distraction within the community.
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