describe how the flu pandemic affected India
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Explanation:
The spread of the disease was exacerbated by a failed monsoon and the resultant famine-like conditions, that had left people underfed and weak, and forced them to move into densely populated cities. As a result of the severity of the outbreak, the year 1919 saw a reduction of births by around 30 percent.
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The first intimation that the influenza outbreak in South-East Asian
countries such as Japan and Malaya was about to spread to India was
received at the Government of India Influenza Centre at Coonoor on 11 May
1957. It was decided to keep a special watch on the arrival of infected
cases at Calcutta and Madras and to isolate the virus from such cases.
Information was received on 15 May that the s.s. Rajula, which had left
Singapore on 9 May with 1622 passengers and about 200 crew members,
had been directed to proceed to Madras instead of to its first port of call
in India, Negapatam, in view of an outbreak of influenza on board affecting
254 persons in seven days. On the ship's arrival at Madras on the morning
of 16 May it was found that there were 44 active cases of influenza on
board, four of them showing temperatures above 103°F (39.4°C).
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