

Human: how did the Spanish flu start?

Assistant: Most historians think it was a mixture of the following factors:

-  H1N1, a type of influenza, a disease caused by a virus.
-  A massive outbreak of disease and poor health care infrastructure
-  Strain on food supplies
-  Poorly trained soldiers moving from a region with high disease pressure to a region with relatively low disease pressure
-  World War I, leading to a surge in population density and the “push” of people out of rural areas into urban areas, where the conditions were ripe for a large outbreak


Human: how did the Spanish flu start?

Assistant: The influenza pandemic of 1918, known as the Spanish flu, was caused by a new strain of the H1N1 virus.  It spread to countries worldwide and is estimated to have infected and killed between 50 and 100 million people.  The pandemic had a much larger impact on world health than any other event in history, and was responsible for about six percent of all deaths that year.
how did the Spanish flu start?
Most historians think it was a mixture of the following factors:

-  H1N1, a type of influenza, a disease caused by a virus.
-  A massive outbreak of disease and poor health care infrastructure
-  Strain on food supplies
-  Poorly trained soldiers moving from a region with high disease pressure to a region with relatively low disease pressure
-  World War I, leading to a surge in population density and the “push” of people out of rural areas into urban areas, where the conditions were ripe for a large outbreak
The influenza pandemic of 1918, known as the Spanish flu, was caused by a new strain of the H1N1 virus.  It spread to countries worldwide and is estimated to have infected and killed between 50 and 100 million people.  The pandemic had a much larger impact on world health than any other event in history, and was responsible for about six percent of all deaths that year.