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Originally Posted by transplant99
In the space of 27 months from March 1918 to June 1920 it is estimated that a full 1/3 of the worlds population was infected and conservatively 40 million people died....from the same strain as H1N1.
Extroplate that.
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It was actually more than that, some people say upwards of 100 million died and a third of the world population was infected (about 500 million)
More soldiers in WWI died from the Spanish flu than from combat...scary!