This Day in History: The Spanish Flu broke out on this day in 1918. This flu is estimated to have killed between 16 and 30 million people worldwide. If you get a flu these days, you are getting remnants of this same flu, however these kinds of massive pandemic deaths are a thing of the past. When you hear about the Corona virus keep in mind that the media loves bad news (fear sells...if it bleeds it leads). Remember the Swine Flu from a few years ago? It killed people, but many more people died from tuberculosis in the same period. Each swine flu death received 82,000 times more media attention than each equally tragic death from TB. Again, while you keep hearing about the Corona virus know that in the U.S. alone, the regular flu results in about 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations per year and it costs Americans $10 billion annually.
These incidents come and go...many more will follow. Remember SARS? Mad Cow Disease? Anthrax? West Nile Virus? Bird Flu? E.Coli? Ebola? Zika Virus? Measles?
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