Fascinating Facts About the Spanish Flu Pandemic

Spanish flu, the deadliest pandemic of the 20th century, struck the world in a series of waves, and left between 50 and 100 million people dead in its wake. It may have appeared in the trenches of World War I in Europe as early as 1916, according to some researchers. →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet?sub_confirmation=1 Find more lists at: http://www.toptenz.net Our other YouTube Channels: Biographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ/ Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw/ Business inquiries to admin@toptenz.net Other TopTenz Videos: Is Water the Earth’s Most Mysterious Substance? https://youtu.be/qiOfZDhJ6-c The Most Important Moments for Life on Earth https://youtu.be/2mKNv6VzR1s Text version: https://ift.tt/2At7Td9 Coming up: 10. Nobody knows for certain where it originated 9. More American soldiers died of Spanish flu than in combat during World War One 8. It affected the Treaty of Versailles 7. The federal government did little regarding the flu’s impact 6. Some cities made wearing masks mandatory, with criminal penalties 5. The 1918 baseball season was shortened, though not because of the flu 4. Franklin Roosevelt contracted the flu while returning from France 3. The flu’s second wave was its deadliest by far 2. Authorities in Philadelphia announced the flu was no worse than seasonal flu and held a parade to sell war bonds 1. A third of the world’s population contracted the flu during the pandemic Source/Further reading: https://ift.tt/2YD9Sou https://ift.tt/2zllYUw https://ift.tt/3gyHqui https://ift.tt/2YCGFu4 https://ift.tt/3aZkLpN https://ift.tt/2lU2o0d https://ift.tt/2QsGk8v .https://ift.tt/2EuQOBW https://ift.tt/2IbhgyI https://ift.tt/3jhocLi https://ift.tt/2H1mhdM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkzV_Jhx4RI https://ift.tt/3aZkMKn https://ift.tt/2EIW2tS https://ift.tt/3gE97BD https://ift.tt/3hye54g https://ift.tt/3hye68k https://ift.tt/3hye6Fm https://ift.tt/3lyPfUu https://ift.tt/31xPEOJ https://ift.tt/2Vf4wP7 https://ift.tt/31xPFlL https://ift.tt/3b5MRjg https://ift.tt/3jiA3c4 https://ift.tt/32xVVcC https://ift.tt/2RdHG8a https://ift.tt/2wQ43sI https://ift.tt/2En2ua5 https://ift.tt/2WrgfJV https://ift.tt/2Vql0DV