The 1918 Influenza Pandemic

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Hallie Lloyd

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🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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1918 saw the end of World War One but also a pandemic that killed more soldiers than the fighting. It wasn't until 1997 that the lethal disease, sometimes called the Spanish Flu, was identified as Influenza. In this episode, we discuss the spread of the pandemic, the effects it caused and the virus itself.

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0:00.0	Hello, listeners. We weren't planning on doing this episode, but due to an overwhelming number of requests, we have complied.
0:08.3	Thank you to Sarah P., Charlene, Louisa, Carl, Mark, Michelle, Sarah T., Marty, Jessa, Libby, Allison, Holland, and many others for requesting it.
0:23.5	If you'd like to suggest a topic, you can do so on our social media and on our website. If you'd like to support the MCP, you can find us on Patreon
0:29.6	at bit.ly slash morbid patron. This episode contains discussions of death by disease. We do not intend to cause fear,
0:40.1	only inform about a pandemic of the past. While there are some similarities between the
0:45.4	1918 influenza pandemic and the current coronavirus pandemic, influenza and coronavirus are not
0:52.9	the same, and neither are the contexts in which these two
0:56.3	pandemics occurred. Still, if this isn't something you want to hear about, this may be a good
1:01.8	episode to skip.
1:20.6	Human Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved. Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity,
1:26.6	and it has gripped hundreds of people throughout the ages.
1:30.2	I am one of those people. My name is Hallie, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast.
1:37.0	Music Here on the MCP, we've done several episodes on pandemics in the last few months,
2:02.6	all on major bubonic plague pandemics, which occurred in the 6th century, the 14th century, and the 19th century C.E.
2:10.6	Because of the current outbreak of coronavirus, interest in pandemics is high, so by request, we're going to talk about another one.
2:18.5	Lately in the media, many comparisons have been made between our current global situation
2:23.3	and the first modern pandemic of influenza.
2:26.5	This pandemic, sometimes referred to as the Spanish flu, occurred between January 1918 and
2:33.0	December of 1920, just as the dust was beginning to settle
2:36.8	from another worldwide crisis. World War I had been raging since July 28, 1914. It began as violence
2:45.5	between several Balkan states and ballooned into a world war between the Allied powers of France, Britain, Russia,
2:52.7	and all of their allies, and the central powers of Germany, Austria, Hungary, and their allies.
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