The Flu EpidemicAbout one quarter of the U.S. population made up the home-from crisis. In the fall of 1918, an international flu epidemic took place. It also had a huge effect on the economy. To avoid contagion, mines were shut down and telephone services were decreased. Also, factories and offices cut back working hours. It began to get so bad that cities ran out of coffins and there were dead bodies of poor people unburied for weeks at a time. Even people in good health would be effected by this contagious illness. Death could appear within days.Cleanliness and quarantine were the only recommendations doctors could give. Because of this, one fifth of the worlds population was effected. During WWI about 16 million lives were taken. More people died from the influenza epidemic than died in the war. More then a quarter of the WWI soldiers caught the flu. Finally, in 1919, the flu disappeared.I think that the effect the flu had on the world in 1918 is very interesting because it killed about four and a half times the people that died in the war.
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