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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Strongbow" data-source="post: 3781578" data-attributes="member: 617">Spanish Flu , short timeline :A pandemic swept through the US and Europe in 1918 killing, by some estimates, more than 50 million people.It began between January and February in the United States when a flurry of people died after presenting symptoms of headaches, respiratory difficulties, cough and high fever.A few months later, patients in France, Belgium and Germany had similar clinical symptoms and in May, a religious festival in Spain caused an outbreak of the same mysterious disease.One of history's most devastating pandemics, the so-called Spanish Flu is seen as an important benchmark by historians who aim to learn lessons from past outbreaks in the face of the current coronavirus pandemic.The lockdown measures put in place over a century ago sound familiar today: theatres, schools and borders were all closed.Public spaces, including telephones, were disinfected, historians say and in the United States, people could be fined up to $100 for not wearing a mask.In 1918, it was quickly understood that crowds could cause further transmission."Lockdowns were put in place and progress was made in the application of preventive measures that had historically proven effective,"This included hygiene measures and quarantining those suspected of being contaminated.Without hope of a vaccine or test, those fighting the 1918 pandemic faced different challenges and some expected summer temperatures to slow the virus' transmission.The second wave of the epidemic, however, was more deadly than the first. In Spain it coincided with harvests and celebrations in September as well as the relaxation of lockdown measures ,Outbreaks occurred the following winter, in some areas there was a third wave in the early 1920s."The end of the pandemic depended on each country: on the information and training of its specialists and the interests of its political class,"Academics agree that the end of the pandemic occurred in 1920, when society ended up developing a collective immunity to the Spanish flu, although the virus never completely disappeared.Couple of points : crowds, hygiene, quarantine and lockdown measures. Sound familiar ?'No hope' of a vaccine, we have.Two years and three waves to see it controlled. Hope we could beat that tbh.</blockquote>

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