Is it a the flu epidemic or flu pandemic
YES. The 1918 flu pandemic killed over 20 million people worldwide.
The related link below links to special Google Map that lists and shows you all the countries that have had confirmed cases of the Swine Flu. They also list and show you which countries have had people die from the Swine Flu.
the effects of a flu pandemic don't need to be lethal because the meaning of the word pandemic is that the disease is spreading fast on a global scale.
The 1918 pandemic of the Spanish Flu killed multiple millions world wide.
The bird flu pandemic has happened 4 times in recorded human history. It has occurred in 1918, 1957 as the Asian flu, 1968 in Hong Kong, and in 2009 as the swine flu.
Pandemic Flu Pandemic refers to contagious or infectious diseases that are usually worldwide or spread across several continents. Some examples of diseases that have caused past pandemics would be cholera, small pox, the bubonic plague, typhus, the Spanish flu, and the Asian flu. Flu refers to influenza. Human influenza pandemics, such as the 2009 novel swine flu (A-H1N1/09) pandemic, are caused by the influenza virus subtypes of A-H1N1. A-H1N1/09 is the subtype that caused this recent swine flu pandemic. It was declared a pandemic on June 11, 2009 by WHO (World Health Organisation). A flu virus that becomes prevalent throughout the world (Apex)
spanish flu
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Although many people have died from the pandemic swine flu, there were so many people who caught the flu in the pandemic, when you evaluate the percentages of deaths that have been related to the flu, it is significantly less deadly than feared and less deadly than even the annual seasonal flu. Most people survive easily. See the related questions for more information.
It was the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1920, and it is estimated to have been responsible for approximately 80 million deaths world wide.
Asian Flu Pandemic of 1957-58