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One Hundred Years Ago: First Cases of Influenza Reported

Posted: 31 Mar 2018 02:00 AM PDT

Rochester, NY, Public Health Poster By Jeffrey Ricker  If you think this year's flu has been bad, 100 years ago, 1918, the flu was much worse. One fifth of the world's population was infected, 15 percent of the infected died, 3 percent of the population. The estimated 50 million deaths was four times the deaths from the Great War. Within months it killed more people than any other

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