How the Spanish Flu Killed More People than World War One
November 26, 2015
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Each year we are flooded with large ad campaigns encouraging us to get our flu shots. Most of us probably wonder why. The flu doesn’t seem that bad, right? But then, every few years, a deadly bout of swine flu, or bird flu spreads through society and we understand a bit better. But, in 1918 the flu demonstrated just how bad it could be. We had an outbreak of the disease like no other. The Spanish flu would go on to kill more people than the the first world war, in just a matter of months. This is the story of the pandemic that touched every corner of the globe.
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