This influenza pandemic of 1918 infected many people around(1.9 billion) of the world's population and killed at least 50 million people world-wide.
What is Spanish flu?
This is called H1N1 virus. During world war 1, the American western soldiers took the H1N1 virus to Europe and from then all the soldiers got infected and when these troops returned to their home, they transmitted it to their families and then it spread all over the world.
This flu is called Forgotten flu.
But Spain, a neutral country, reported the outbreak of the virus accurately and when some big personalities of Spain were infected by the virus, other countries started to name it as the Spanish flu which dubbed to be emerged in Spain.
How did people survive?
By 1920 the pandemic came to an end the people who were infected either died or developed immunity. The people who were not affected got themselves isolated.
The time period of this flu Jan 1918- Dec 1920
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