Name: The Spanish Flu Was Deadlier Than WWI
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Description: In 1918 the Spanish Flu killed at least 50 million people around the world and was the second deadliest plague in history – after, well, the plague in the 1300s. But how exactly did a flu virus cause such massive death and destruction across the world?

In 1918 the Spanish Flu killed at least 50 million people around the world and was the second deadliest plague in history—after, well, the plague in the 1300s. But how exactly did a flu virus cause such massive death and destruction across the world?

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The Spanish Flu Was Deadlier Than WWI

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In 1918 the Spanish Flu killed at least 50 million people around the world and was the second deadliest plague in history – after, well, the plague in the 1300s. But how exactly did a flu virus cause such massive death and destruction across the world?

<p>World War I pitted Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire against Great Britain, the United States, France, Russia, Italy and Japan. New military technology resulted in unprecedented carnage. By the time the war was over and the Allied Powers claimed victory, more than 16 million people—soldiers and civilians alike—were dead.</p>


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