Today begins anniversary of worst flu outbreak in human history

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Source: http://www.kwtx.com/content/news/To...-flu-outbreak-in-human-history-467441003.html


Today begins anniversary of worst flu outbreak in human history
More than 200 soldiers training in Waco for World War I died of the flu before they finished training. (Credit: Baylor University Texas Collection)
By Paul J. Gately |
Updated: Sun 3:24 PM, Dec 31, 2017

WACO, Texas (KWTX) As bad as the flu is this season after immunologists apparently misdiagnosed what type of virus would affect humans this year, it simply cannot compare with what was happening around here and around the world 100 years ago.

Best-case numbers showed McLennan County health officials reported more than 675 cases of influenza during the first dozen days of December and that number grows daily.

The most recent past spike came in 2014-2015 when McLennan County reported a few more than 900 cases for the whole season, data obtained from the Waco-McLennan County Health District showed.

Local doctors agree there are four to five times as many cases on the books this year as in those recently passed, but as bad as it is, it falls far short of what was happening in January 1918.

A century ago this month the first cases of H1N1 flu were cropping up in places scattered across the globe but initially no one was concerned...

 

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> McLennan County health officials reported more than 675 cases of influenza during the
> first dozen days of December and that number grows daily.

this is Dec. 1917 ? 100 years ago , no #deaths mentioned.

that would be interesting, because it could have been the new mutated virus already,
which other cities like New York got in March,April 1918

> it falls far short of what was happening in January 1918.

hah, that answers it. Mc Lennan County, Texas where the pandemic started ?!?!?

Also New Orleans, maybe.

They were at war with Mexico, camps, horses.

> Central Texas was bad, it was not nearly as terrible as it was elsewhere.

could be protection from the Dec.1917 outbreak.

> Over the same period of time there were between 280 and 500 cases of Spanish
> flu reported in Waco but outside the military camps.

> 930 cases of flu at Camp MacArthur and 202 soldiers died.
> In the city, between 280 and 500 citizens died of the flu,?

must have been wave 2 now , Nov-Dec 1918

> less severe in Waco than in many other places