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A virus that spread around the globe infecting tens of millions of people, overwhelming medical services on multiple continents. Patients developing a fever, coughing, and shortness of breath. Cities across the U.S. closing their schools, churches, theaters, and bars to slow the spread. This was the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which killed over 50 million people worldwide. “The Spanish flu was the last major pandemic that we saw aggressively test health systems around the globe,” Alexandre White, a professor of medical history, told Brut. Despite its name, the first identified cases were in the U.S. in the last year of WWI, before soldiers spread it to Europe. Though the pandemic didn't originate in Spain, and Spain wasn't as badly hit as other countries, it was the first country to widely report on it, hence the nickname. The disease created a global scare, similar to COVID-19 today. But the two pandemics are very different. Modern tools for understanding and treating viruses didn't exist 100 years ago. The massive displacements of WWI also rapidly spread the disease. “After World War I, health systems were already shattered. People were weakened and compromised in general as a result of years of one of the most disastrous wars humanity has ever known. And as a result of people traveling back and forth from war zones to their home or refugees traveling back to their homelands, you had a lot of movement of people who are able to carry the disease more effectively than you might have outside of the context of war,” White said. Unlike COVID-19, which hits older people the hardest, the Spanish flu was deadly among the young and healthy. The Spanish flu pandemic ended quickly, in the summer of 1919. The virus may have mutated to become less deadly. But a few simple tactics also helped save lives, some of which are now being used to combat the current pandemic.

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