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The great influenza was the last major plague that happened. It began in the year of 1819 and had a fast growing rate. The ship yard in Philadelphia is where is started. The ship yard has about 3000 to 4000 people working on it and it started here and as you could easily imagine. thegreatinfluenza.doc   Everyone that came in to Philadelphia would come through the ship yard. The ship yard was the one of the largest in the US. thegreatinfluenza.doc The theory of the way the way the plague started was by the solider coming from over seas bang it in to the city and spread it at the boat dock

The plague had a death toile of over 100 million people. thegreatinfluenza.doc Some factors that made this happen and start so strong in Philadelphia where the fact that the city was over swelling it had 1.75 million people in it, the living conditions where in the slums, and the city had very poor hospital. All of these factors made Philadelphia “fertile ground” for the plague. thegresatinfluenza.doc The plague was worse than any human massacre that has ever happened. This death toll would be like roughly one third of the population of the united states dying.

The main way that the plague was ended was that it ran out of people to infect. The plague had infected so many people so fast that its main victims, young children with week immune systems, it died in 1920. http.doc The American medicine revolution led by William Welch had improved the condition of the plague by the 1920. The Rockefeller University along with Oswald Avery discovery of a DNA type of vaccine helped to strengthen many people I hospitals and gave people hope.http.doc

Once all the hospitals got filled up with infected patients, the cities would make tent hospitals and put patients any where they could so they could be under the help of a doctor if possible. When everyone was in the hospitals if you weren’t you stayed in side cause you didn’t want to be out cause of the possibility of catching the plague. http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/fluepidemic1 The plague effected the US cities of Baltimore, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Boston and New York, and New Orleans the first.thegreatinfluenza.doc

The Plague was worst then any war that the Americas have been in. The plague is still around but we are able to get vaccines of it in the US even though we can’t hold any in the United States. This epidemic virus is was only a year long and killed more the 100 million people, I think that they had the right technology back then and had the right scientist that we had today a lot of lives could have been saved. I think its scary that one little virus can do so much to a generation of people.