1918 Spanish flu, For Girls: The Great Influenza which Wiped-out 100 Million

A virus that killed a third of the world population, a flu like none other, the Spanish flu is a forgotten pandemic for the Millennials. This is a bone-chilling story from the past, a tale of death, dejection, and abject penury, when the world was brought to a standstill by an unforeseen, hitherto unheard-of microorganism. The Spanish flu is a must-read because it is a grim reminder of a past global calamity that wreaked havoc in all parts of the world, sparing no one. Young adults were its most vulnerable victims, making it all the more deadly and gruesome. Healthy and boisterous young men and women died within 12 hours after first showing symptoms, leaving a generation of children orphaned and bereft.

The Spanish flu killed more Americans than World War 1, World War 2, Iraq and Afghanistan War, Korean War, and the Vietnam War combined. The world powers were whipsawed between the First World War and the war with an invisible foe that was far more deadly than the enemy on the other side. Read about the virulent Spanish flu that rained death on millions of people, targeting young adults in the prime of their youth. The Spanish flu, surprisingly, didn’t originate in Spain.

The entire mankind was brought to their collective knees when a killer virus ran on a rampage in 1918-1920.

Where did the Spanish flu originate? How did it become so vicious? Will the world come under the yoke of another pandemic? Read the story of the Spanish flu or commonly known as the blue death to know about the most deadly pandemic that mankind ever faced.