That is impossible to know since records have not been kept for more than around a fifty to a hundred years. Before that, either statistics were not kept or they didn't know that the cause of a death was the flu since they didn't even know viruses existed.
There were around 50 million people who died world wide from the Spanish Flu pandemic and there are around 36,000 deaths each year from seasonal flu in the US alone. The numbers would likely be staggering if we could isolate all the deaths in history that were due to the flu and then count them, but that is not possible with the available information.
The flu epidemic.
YES. The 1918 flu pandemic killed over 20 million people worldwide.
It is possible that flu killed people in the middle ages, but it was not identified as "flu" but something else. Since no medical records were made or kept it is hard to know what people died of most of the time.
Estimated that anywhere from 20 to 100 million people were killed worldwide by the Spanish Flu
The Spanish flu?
Most of the time you get the flu is when someone sneezes on you of if someone coughs on you
The influenza pandemic of 1918 to 1919, also known as the Spanish flu, killed millions of people worldwide. It is considered one of the deadliest pandemics in human history.
Estimated that anywhere from 20 to 100 million people were killed worldwide by the Spanish Flu
I understand it killed more people than the war itself.
The epidemic that killed canadians after the war, was called the spanish influenza (flu)
Yes, each year in the US approximately 36,000 people die from the flu; most did not have a flu vaccination.
The Swine Flu is similar to the regular seasonal flu, many adults and children have died from it around the world, but the majority recover. Unlike the seasonal flu, however, less elderly people have been killed by the A-H1N1/09 swine flu than the regular seasonal flu. People over 65 are much less at risk from the swine flu than seasonal flu.