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events of the Spanish Flu epidemic

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    the beginning

    the first outbreak is unknown but it first started to spread on February 1918 (unknown day)
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    the deaths in the middle

    an estimate of 500 million people became infected with the virus and the number of deaths were 50 million
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    the end of the virus

    it was devastating with no vaccines, but they eventually found a cure and before that people were quarantining and having good personnel hygiene
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    back to noraml

    now that the Spanish Flu was mostly gone, but a devastating amount of deaths, people tried to get back to normal. and then it did eventually get better with grieving families, and they managed to get back to regular living!