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Spanish Flu (1918 – 1919)
Between 1918 and 19190 a disturbingly deadly outbreak of influenza tore across the globe, infecting over a third of the world’s population and ending the lives of 50 million people. Of the 500 million people infected in the 1918 pandemic, the mortality rate was estimated at 10% to 20%, with up to 25 million deaths in the first 25 weeks alone. Both Russian flu and the Spanish flu pandemic of were caused by influenza viruses wouldn’t be definitively determined until 1933.
