Pandemics #2

In 1817, during the first Cholera Pandemic, the bacterium was passed along to British soldiers who brought it to India where millions more died.

Starting in China and moving to India and Hong Kong, the bubonic plague claimed roughly _____ million victims.

After Fiji ceded to the British Empire, a royal party visited Australia as a gift from Queen Victoria. Arriving during a ______ outbreak, the royal party brought the disease back to their island.

During the 1875 Fiji Measles Pandemic, about ______ people died.

The 1889 _______ flu pandemic started in Siberia and Kazakhstan, traveled to Moscow, and made its way into Finland and then Poland, where it moved into the rest of Europe.

By the following year 1890, the Russian flu crossed the ocean into North America and Africa. By the end of 1890, ________ had died.

The avian-borne flu that resulted in _____ million deaths worldwide, the 1918 flu was first observed in Europe, the United States and parts of Asia before swiftly spreading around the world.

Wire service reports of a flu outbreak in Madrid in the spring of 1918 led to the pandemic being called the “Spanish flu.”

October _______ would become the deadliest month in American history as a contagion the likes of which had not been seen since the days of the Black Death raged around the world.

By the time it became less intense in 1920, the Spanish flu had killed ________ Americans and left hundreds of thousands of children orphaned.