Flu vaccines have prevented millions of deaths, research shows
Spanish flu pandemic was caused by a particularly virulent strain of influenza virus. It infected 500 million people, caused ...
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It
The death toll from the flu of 1918 was more than a half-million people ... an emerging virus could be spread today at a rate that is orders of magnitude faster than the rate of spread eight ...
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Inside the swift, deadly history of the Spanish Flu pandemic
Brevig Mission was just one place that was part of a global tragedy, one of the worst ever to befall humanity: the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 ... unusually high mortality rates of the new ...
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Worldwide flu pandemic strikes
Late in the spring of 1918 the Spanish wire ... commonly called "Spanish flu" killed more people than the guns of World War I. Estimates put the worldwide death toll at 21,642,274.