A 2006 CDC article says the Spanish flu’s case fatality rate was around 2.5%, which would mean 2.5% of people infected died. But as science writer Ferris Jabr pointed out recently in Wired , the ...

Few have come close to the so-called Spanish flu of 1918, when 500 million people were infected and as many as 100 million killed by a brutal influenza outbreak at the end of the First World War.

Children wear flu masks in Starke, Fla., during the Spanish influenza outbreak of 1918. [ State Archives of Florida (1918) ] “Probably the saddest group that was hit was the Seminole Indians ...

In the aftermath of World War One, a flu pandemic swept the world, killing at least 50 million people. What lessons can it teach us about Covid-19? One hundred years ago, a world recovering from a ...

Then 21 million people died. ... It was the start of the infamous “Spanish Flu”—a misnomer for the scourge that likely began in the U.S. but, ... The housing stock was also poor, ...

Spanish Flu of 1918: 'You should not underestimate the flu' ... However, even in 2018, the CDC estimates the virus affects 200,000 people annually and sees 36,000 deaths each year.

A pandemic or worldwide epidemic of influenza – nicknamed Spanish flu ... people had died from ... the elderly and to people in poor health, the 1918-1919 flu was especially deadly ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the great influenza pandemic of 1918. Between 50 and 100 million people are thought to have died, representing as much as 5 percent of the world's population.

10 Misconceptions About the 1918 'Spanish Flu' In the pandemic of 1918, between 50 and 100 million people are thought to have died, representing as much as 5% of the world’s population.

Overall, 675,000 Americans were killed by the Spanish flu. This number surpasses the total of U.S. soldiers killed in World War I, World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam War combined.

Unlike most influenza viruses, the 1918 flu was most lethal for people ages 20-40 and young children. Researchers don’t fully understand why this was the case, though the lack of a vaccine, poor ...