Pandemic1918 CE – 1920 CEEurope, Americas, Asia, Africa, Oceania

Spanish Flu

The most deadly pandemic in recorded history infected an estimated 500 million people — one-third of the world's population — and killed between 50 and 100 million, more than the entirety of World War I, disproportionately killing healthy young adults through a cytokine storm immune overreaction.

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