A recent study published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals new data on the victims of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. The study was carried out with experts from Canada’s McMaster University and the University of Colorado Boulder, and in the United States – 369 remains held at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History were examined. Embora believes that the influenza pandemic has particularly harmed young people, educated people and teachers, and new data shows that the influenza virus strikes both healthy and sick young people, as well as those who are frail and have chronic diseases. The Spanish Flu of 1918 is known as one of the deadliest flus in history, killing about 50 million people, accounting for about 1.3% to 3% of the world’s population.
A total of 369 remains were analyzed, and the samples were divided into two groups: the first group had 288 people who died before the pandemic, and the second group had 81 people who died during the influenza outbreak. A drawer at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History contains the name, identity and year of death of each corpse analyzed. Because it will be revealed to researchers that will allow us to identify the two entities that killed the Spanish flu victims – six people aged between twenty and forty years old.
The expert team examined all findings for signs of stress or inflammation, as well as factors caused by physical trauma, infection, or malnutrition. “Our study shows that people who received these active lessons were more vulnerable. By comparing these lesions to lesions that disappeared or healed during the peak period of death, we It’s possible to understand what we call vulnerability, or Seja, that we are more likely to die. “The two authors from the University of Colorado were involved in something I did not study.
The results concluded that older people are more vulnerable when it comes to infection – both young and old – they are more susceptible to harm. Therefore, the researchers concluded that people with chronic diseases or nutritional deficiencies were more likely to die than those without these conditions, regardless of their status.
“We used a bioarchaeological approach, combining personal information on health and stress obtained from two remains of people who died in 1918, to determine whether healthy individuals died during the 1918 pandemic, or whether underlying vulnerabilities caused greatest risk of death,” which can be read in this study.
Despite the conclusions, we don’t know the experts, or there are some limitations to the study. As an analysis tied to a specific time and place—Foraminifera analyzed bodies found only in Ohio—the search simply collected specific data from the cities on the mission. Furthermore, since only the number of victims of the pandemic is considered, information on survivors of the same event cannot be collected for future comparisons.