100 years ago, celebrations marking the end of the First World War were cut short by the onslaught of a devastating disease – the 1918-19 influenza pandemic. Its early origins and initial geographical starting point still remain a mystery but in the Summer of 1918, there was a second wave of a far more virulent form of the influenza virus than anyone could have anticipated. Soon dubbed ‘Spanish Flu’ after its effects were reported in the country’s newspapers, the virus rapidly spread across much of the globe to become one of the worst natural disasters in human history.
To mark the centenary and to highlight vital scientific research, the University of Cambridge has made a new film exploring what we have learnt about Spanish Flu, the urgent threat posed by influenza today, and how scientists are preparing for future pandemics.
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(Watching in 2021) … welp!
When this film was made they were not expecting a novel virus.
How does a virus cross from a pig or a bird to humans?? I guess if humans stop eating animals we would have less cross over viruses.
It's 2021 and the fact that a lot of us don't learn…
this is a forgotten lesson of last past pandemic in 1920
And I just watched this video today
Now July 2021 and this covid19 had a new type, Delta? Don't know exactly but that what i see on the news and the casualities are quite high here in Indonesia, the Hospital ia over load
I have been watching stuff from the plague and the cholera outbreak and now I’m up to Spanish flu lol!
A century later and we still have to beg people to wear a mask…
This feels surreal with Corona
That's what happens when citizens listen to politicians and call scientists as stupid
Funny how the flu seemed to disappear when covid-19 came about ???
This video stressed me out
It originated in the USA
American soldiers took it into Europe .
Boom
That for recommending me after 2 year in the middle of covid19 in India.. 400000 cases daily in India. May God bless uss with Good health
In 1969 I had the Hong Kong Flu. I was sick for weeks and became very thin. I rarely get the flu now.
And his brother is Corona
you're telling me this was posted TWO YEARS AGO?
Here on Second wave India ??
B1 617 ?
is this what we call "Foreshadowing"? Exact 1Year and 1Week later China reported it's first cases
You were way ahead of time
OMG we are there….? Just 12months after this video is uploaded ???????
YouTube recommends this now, COVID days.
A warning from history which nobody took seriously.
This video is published on 30 Nov 2018 when covid- 19 was unknown . Cambridge university tell the future of world
We in India thought it was over in 2020 when things have just become worse than any other country in 2021 and I am typing this while having caught Covid 19, counting days if I will be cured or not. We never saw this coming. NEVER!!
The fact that this flu went from 1918 to 1957 and rn we got it back in 2019 and here we are in 2020…..how long will this one last
Year 2100
Covid 19 A warning from history
Informative ?
This was made in 2018… if they only knew, two years later… history repeats itself