Why did the 1918 flu pandemic end?
Evolution tends to select the milder forms so as to spread more effectively and over time will predominate.
Factors contribute to virulence: overcrowding and mode of transmission: WWI and cities.
Eventually survivors contract—milder forms.
Evolution tends to select the milder forms so as to spread more effectively and over time will predominate.
Factors contribute to virulence: overcrowding and mode of transmission: WWI and cities.
Eventually survivors contract—milder forms.
In 1919 they called it “The Grip” this section of a newspaper article compared it to the 1888-1890 last cycle of influenza. They had a very interesting perspective.