The Influenza Pandemic of 1918.

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The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I ( WWI) , at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people.

It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history.

More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351.

Known as "Spanish Flu"or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster.

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