How did the Spanish Flu die out?

[no_hypocrisy]

Why didn't it continue indefinitely due to variants like the Covid Virus?

[Sherman A1]

1. My understanding is that that it didn't die out

But mutated to less virulent strains.

[TexasTowelie]

2. People either died or they developed immunity. nt

[Native]

3. It's still around today.

https://www.history.com/news/1918-flu-pandemic-never-ended

[Alice Kramden]

7. What an interesting link

Thanks for posting

[Throck]

11. Makes me wonder if pandemics are part of evolution?

I read an article several years ago where pandemic archeologist were excavating permafrost in Alaska to find bodies of person who had perished from the original strain of the Spanish Flu in hopes of obtaining a sample to study.

With COVID and only being 2 years into this shitstorm, lots has been learned because of technology but yet the virus is still not fully understood. Humans vs nature, sometimes the humans lose.

[IronLionZion]

12. That's the problem with uncontacted tribes

if most of the world has antibodies and t-cells but can still be carriers of viruses, there are isolated tribes that don't have any immunity. Then some missionary goes to spread the good word and kills most of them without even realizing it.

[BigmanPigman]

13. I read about that guy too.

He went to Alaska to fing frozen lung tissue that had the virus in it. He was very respectful and the town allowed him to proceed.

[multigraincracker]

4. My dad said his earliest memory was of a neighbor

tossing food over the fence because his mother had that flu. She went on to live a long time.

[Loki Liesmith]

5. It didn't. You probably have had it.

It mutated to a less virulent form. Like omicron appears to be.

[Tomconroy]

6. People still die of the flu, mostly the elderly.

[Lovie777]

8. Roughly Feb. 1918 - April 1920 . ...

Roughly 500 million cases; 25-50 million and or 17 - 100 million deaths; millions - pain, suffering, pre-existing conditions around the world. And that's the bare minimum of the Influenza A virus (Spanish Flu).

Today especially in my opinion if the USA focused in the early stages of COVID could have at least have had a better % of containment of this virus. But alas, the GQP is a lying death trap, pain and suffering, pre-exisitng party.

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

9. Whatever the pandemic was back in time none of them were totally wiped out.

They are still here and always will be in one form or another.

[Blues Heron]

10. except smallpox of course - we nailed that one pretty good