Spanish flu

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Event.png Spanish flu (“pandemic”) Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
DateJanuary 1918 - December 1920
Locationglobal
Deaths50000000
Interest ofEleanor McBean, Hans Tolzin

The 1918 influenza pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920; colloquially known as Spanish flu) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic which infected 500 million people around the world, or about 27% of the then world population of between 1.8 and 1.9 billion, including people on isolated Pacific islands and in the Arctic. The death toll is estimated to have been anywhere from 17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest epidemics in human history.

Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify its geographic origin with certainty.[1]

 

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