The mortality rate for young adults aged 20 to 40 iswas the highest. Many of the youngsters who supportsupported families and communities died offrom the flu, leaving numbers of the elderly and orphans alone. Overall, males werewere more likely to die from the flu than females, unless the onesexcluding those who were pregnant during that period. At that time, numbers of expectant mothers lost their babies or died unfortunately died.
Scientists are not sure why those who arewere in the middle of their lives died the most easily, before. Before that, it usually happens in oldhappened to older groups, the oneones with high risk. There is one possible clue that for those elderly, the mortality rate of the 1918 flu is lower, comparingcompared to many flus in theirthe past ten years.