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The Influenza Pandemic of 1918

The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster.

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The flu season, during which the disease is most rampant, is generally thought to run from November through April. According to estimates from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the influenza virus sends more than 200,000 Americans to the hospital every year. And each year, more than 36,000 people die from the flu and its complications.

Most vulnerable are the elderly, infants and those with conditions that cause their immune systems to be compromised. But even young, healthy individuals can die from a severe infection.

Such was the case with 13-year-old Ian Willis of Frederick, Md. Ian's father, Robert Willis, said that on Feb. 13, Ian woke up and said he was not feeling well.

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The Influenza Division is in the process of updating their existing surveillance systems in response to the outbreak caused by influenza H1N1 swine virus to provide more timely data. The weekly surveillance report (FluView) for week 16 (week ending April 25, 2009) will not be posted Friday, May 1, 2009. The most current information on the influenza H1N1 swine virus investigation is available at http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/.

Some of the pediatric influenza hospitalization data for the 2007-2008 season from one site in the New Vaccine Surveillance Network (NVSN) has recently been found to contain some errors. The data has been reanalyzed and the updated data has been posted in the May 17, 2008, week 20 report. Other influenza surveillance systems data are unaffected.

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Deaths from Flu
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Deaths from Flu: 63,730 annual deaths for influenza and pneumonia (NVSR Sep 2001); estimated 20,000 deaths from flu (NIAID)

Cause of death rank: 7th leading cause of death in 1999 and 2000 is "pneumonia/influenza" (CDC)

Death rate extrapolations for USA for Flu: 63,729 per year, 5,310 per month, 1,225 per week, 174 per day, 7 per hour, 0 per minute, 0 per second. Note: this automatic extrapolation calculation uses the deaths statistic: 63,730 annual deaths for influenza and pneumonia (NVSR Sep 2001); estimated 20,000 deaths from flu (NIAID)

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Killed by Car Accidents

Highway fatalities account for more than 94% of all transportation deaths. There were an estimated 6,289,000 car accidents in the US in 1999. There were about 3.4 million injuries and 41,611 people killed in auto accidents in 1999. The total number of people killed in highway crashes in 2001 was 42,116, compared to 41,945 in 2000. An average of 114 people die each day in car crashes in the U.S. more... and 1999 pdf... [PDF Document - 2.5M]

Killed by the Common Flu

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that 35 to 50 million Americans come down with the flu during each flu season.The CDC estimates that in the US more than 100,000 people are hospitalized and more than 20,000 people die from the flu and its complications every year.

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Drug related deaths often attract a great deal of political and media attention. Statistics on drug related deaths, along with anecdotes from individual cases, are often used to illustrate the harm drugs can cause and to defend prohibitionist policies.

Although these statistics can be used to provide one indication about how harmful drugs are, it is an overly simplistic indicator for this purpose. Most drug related harm is non-fatal, and drug related deaths are not proof that a certain drug is inherently harmful, since harm to an individual is determined by how the drug used (dose, frequency, poly drug use, method of use, etc)

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