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The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than WW1. The pandemic killed between 20 and 40 million people. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351.

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It's usually referred to as the Spanish Flu Epidemic.

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Influenza

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