Second task,the sidebar story Part 2.Now it’s about the Spanish Flu.

Okay,in almost every news report that’s been mentioned,there will always be comparisons about this previous flu called the Spanish flu.So apparently this thing is called the predecessot to the current H1N1 flu we’ve all been hearing about.So what make this flu so special and just why does it have a link to the current strain?

Well,apparently the Spanish flu was a lot more serious than the current H1N1 pandemic.After all,this is a type of flu strain that managed to kill,according to various reports on the web,Wikipedia specifically cites that a thridof the world population which was equal to 25 million people then died.Meanwhile,another site virus.stanford.edu puts the figure between 20-40 million people.

Whichever way you look at it,that’s a lot of deaths.The world population then wasn’t even the same number of people today. 20-40 million people was a lot,one third of the world population.If the same sitauation was replayed today and say the H1N1 pandemic robbed a third of the world today,2 billion people would perish.Now think.A lot of people killed due to one single strain of virus.

Did you know that the Spanish flu didn’t even originate from Spain?It was only called that because during World War 1,Spain was a neutral country and news from there was considered the most trusted.

There was also a second strain of the pandemic back in 1918.The second strain was more deadly because the virus had mutated into a more deadly form.Therefore,for the present strain,certainly there are certain points that we can pick up to prevent a recurrence of multiple deaths.

Due to today’s technology and fast-based lifestyle,the rate the new strain of  H1N1 would spread is much more quicker.Nowadays,there’s low-cost planes where people travel easily to spread diseases at a faster rate but there is also new technology that  help develop drugs to combat this pandemic.Hopefully,there will be an end to this pandemic and pray that it  won’t be as worse as the last time.The world certainly doesn’t need another medical crisis on its hands.