Influenza Quotes
He is in charge of collecting and deploying the funds donated for infectious diseases from countries throughout the world. Each nation has its own budget cycle and the public health officials have to plan and act as soon as they learn that an epidemic is breaking out. The viruses and bacteria grow when they grow, not when budgets have planned for them.
Little was done and it is estimated that half the Eskimo population was wiped out as the result of flu that turned to pneumonia and measles epidemics at the same time for a population that was not very well nourished to start with.
Influenza, commonly referred to as the “flu”, is a deadly killer. Annual vaccinations are required to prevent getting the Flu, but even today, many people, even in America, do not get their annual vaccine. Each year, 40 Thousand American die of the Flu, even into the 21st century.
This is a very interesting historical quotation. The House and the Senate closed the galleries because America was in the midst of the most fatal outbreak of disease in its history. It was the Flu, but that year it was a particularly virulent strain—the first time the world had seen the H1N1 strain. There was no vaccine then and about 100 million people died worldwide. In America more than ½ million people died. It was the worst Pandemic in history—it killed more people than the Black Plague even. The medical authorities did realize that the flu was spread from person to person but other than keep people from congregating in groups as in the Congressional galleries, there was little they knew about what to do.
