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Asian Flu - 4-million dead

Started in wild ducks in Guizhou, southern China, and mutated with existing human strain. Spread to Singapore in February 1957, Hong Kong in April and U.S. in June, where about 69,800 died. Infection rates were highest among school children, young adults and pregnant women, but elderly had the highest rates of death. Disease abated by year end but flared up in January and February 1958, when there was another wave of illness among the elderly

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