The Spanish flu or "Spanish flu" is considered the most massive influenza pandemic in the history of mankind. In 1918-1919 (18 months) around the world, about 550 million people, or 29.5% of the world's population, fell ill with the Spanish flu. Approximately 50-100 million people or 2.7-5.3% of the world's population died, which makes this epidemic one of the largest catastrophes in the history of mankind. The epidemic began in the last months of the First World War, but quickly bypassed this armed conflict in terms of the scale of casualties.
And now it looks like the epidemic is returning. 100 years later, in 2018, this flu has killed 27 people in California and the virus is spreading rapidly. Now I (Hal Turner) got him.
I'm not very young, but I'm not very old either, quite a healthy guy. I'm 55, but I've never felt so bad in my life. I have a temperature of 103.4 F (39.7 C)!
For some, this is not much with the flu, but for me it is the highest temperature in life. I have a wild cough, diarrhea, muscle pain EVERYWHERE! Sometimes I feel so bad that it seems to me that I will now spit out my lungs or my guts will also fly out of me.
When I realized that that's all, I went and drank Motrin (Naproxen is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug from the group of propionic acid derivatives, has analgesic and antipyretic effects), four tablets. This caused the fever to break down. But then what happened!
When I woke up wet with sweat, I was not just wet. My wife told me that it was as if someone had poured a bucket of water into my bed.
And then it dawned on me that this flu is not easy! Then I got up, staggering from a wet bed and skimming the Internet, I discovered that this flu had already killed 27 people in California and was registered in 36 more states.
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And in Ireland, this flu killed a perfect healthy man, a local famous football player! He died 24 hours after being hospitalized with the flu:
The H3N2 strain is responsible for most of the deadliest cases reported this season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The flu season usually begins in October-November, peaking by the end of February, but the peak can occur at any time, including even April.
Today, many California doctors claim that this H3N2 surge is unusually severe.
“The flu is spreading at a faster rate than last year, even though last year was one of the worst flu seasons in a decade,” said Dr. Randy Bergen, clinical director of the flu vaccination program for Kaiser Permanente in Northern California.
The emergency room at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica typically admits about 140 patients a day, with a variety of complaints. But now more than 200 patients a day apply there, and almost all of them have this same flu.
Doctors name different reasons for this situation. Some say that bad officials are to blame for buying bad vaccines. Others blame medical corporations for making bad drugs. Still others believe that the flu itself is bad, that it is he who is to blame. Probably, it took a lot of scary years to study to say so cleverly.
But what can I say? The flu spreads through the air when a nit is nearby and coughs on you. This is how I picked up this strain in the supermarket. Therefore, avoid supermarkets until the last opportunity. Remember: the disease is very unusual, one might say special. And she is also very unpleasant, I now know.