Pandemics in History. Class 2Bd Liceo Touschek- 2020

1. Martina Benotti
Altea Bizzarri
pandemics and epidemics
the Spanish flu

2. >introduction
During history there were many epidemic and pandemics that
affected a lot of people.
One of the most
important and recent
pandemics was the
spanish flu.
It stroke all the world but it’s called
spanish because news were diffused
only in Spain, while all other countries
where under the censorship of the war.

3. >what is flu?
Influenza or flu is a type of virus that affects the
respiratory system.
The virus is highly
contagious: when an
infected person coughs,
sneezes or talks, droplets
are generated and
transmitted into the air,
and then can be inhaled
by anyone nearby.

4. >spanish flu
The 1918 flu was first observed in
europe, the United States and parts of
asia before spreading around the world.
At the time, there were no effective
drugs or vaccines to treat this virus.
It stroke from
February
1918 to April
1920.
The infected estimated
are 500 million people
worldwide and
killed an estimated 20
million victims.

5. >where it originated
Scientists still don’t know for sure but theories point the united
states.
The first case was reported at camp
funston in Kansas, on march 11, 1918
Some believe infected soldiers
spread the disease to other
military camps across the country,
then brought it overseas.

6. >symptoms
The first wave of pandemic
wasn’t very strong.
Infected people had
symptoms typical of flu, such
as chills, fever and fatigue.
They healed in few days and
so the number of deaths
was very low.
The second wave was highly contagious and it killed victims
within hours or days of developing symptoms.
Their skin turned blue and their lungs filled with a fluid that
caused suffocation.

7. >fighting the virus
Trying to cure the virus, many doctors gave
too many doses of aspirins to ill people.
they thought more aspirin would alleviate
symptoms but instead it caused more
deaths.
Doctors and scientists were unsure how to treat
the virus and World War I killed a lot of doctors
and of the available medical personal of the U.S.
had been infected.
Hospitals were full of flu patients and
other buildings had to be converted
into makeshift hospitals.

8. >rules imposed
quarantines
wear a mask
avoid shaking hand
staying indoors
no spitting

9. >how it ended
by the
summer of
1919, the flu
pandemic
came to an
end, as those
that were
infected either
died or
developed
immunity.

10. >effects in the History
Indian independence
Racism
Better
sanitary
system
More open air sport
Helped the end of
the war
Influenced art
Craziness

11. >Spanish flu versus Covid-19