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Viral Infections By Charlotte Meschede - Nutritionist
This is indeed a strange and unnatural time for everyone all over the world. Who would have thought that a simple organism such as a virus, in this case an enveloped virus, would be able to hold the entire world hostage, whilst it wreaks havoc on all of our lives? proximately 2 million, 68,000 of those being in the USA alone.
This isn’t the first time as we all know. The pandemics that have captured the historians over time include these: •
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The Flu Pandemic of 1918 (Spanish Flu) literally spread across the globe, infecting over a third of the world’s population and causing 2050 million deaths. Of the 500 million people infected, the mortality rate was 10-20%. The difference with this virus from others was that it infected young, completely healthy adults, whilst leaving weaker children with compromised immune systems alive.
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The first major pandemic in the 20th century was the 6th Cholera pandemic from 1910 – 1911. This originated in India and killed 800,000 or more before going to the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe and Russia.
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The worst of all the pandemics was of curse the Black Death or Bubonic Plague that ravaged Europe, Africa and Asia from 1346 - 1353. The estimated death toll was 75 – 200 million people having been spread to humans via fleas living on rats.
AIDS PANDEMIC peaked from 2005 - 2012 although was discovered much earlier.
• The total death from AIDS since 1981 has been 36 million. It was first identified in the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1976. To date about 5% of Sub-Saharan Africa are infected (approximately 21 million people). •
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The Hong Kong Flu pandemic in 1968 was caused by the H3N2 strain of the Influenza A virus. Although this virus had a comparatively low death rate, more than a million people died, including 500 000 of the Hong Kong residents at the time. The Asian Flu (1956-1958) was also Influence A virus (H2N2 from which the above flu developed). It also originated in China and lasted for about 2 years. The WHO estimated the death toll to be ap-
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