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Flu vaccines have prevented millions of deaths, research shows
The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was caused by a particularly virulent strain of influenza virus. It infected 500 million people ...
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MOST DEADLY; Spanish Influenza of 1918
The Covid “pandemic’ was nothing compared to the greatest killer of humanity, The Black Death of the 14th century, and the ...
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From the Black Death to Spanish flu and smallpox, a brief history of plagues
No one knows where the Spanish flu started, but recent studies show ... while school is closed Smallpox was the leading cause of death in the 18th century. And, like all good plagues, it was ...
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Inside the swift, deadly history of the Spanish Flu pandemic
The Spanish flu strain killed its victims with a swiftness ... At this early stage, the illness was not well understood and deaths were often attributed to pneumonia. Strict wartime censorship ...
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Spanish Flu Killed 50 Million. Terrorists Can Now Create Synthetic Version of the Virus.
A university professor and two students recreated a virus identical to the one that caused the devastating 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. If they can do it, so can terrorists. “The Terrorism Warning ...
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Worldwide flu pandemic strikes
The influenza commonly called "Spanish flu" killed more people than the guns of World War I. Estimates put the worldwide death toll at 21,642,274. Some one billion people were affected by the ...
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The 1919 Stanley Cup Final and modern-history's deadliest pandemic
Just as the COVID-19 cluster at the Life Care Center demonstrates the risks posed to the elderly, so does the death of Joe Hall suggest how Spanish flu put an entirely different demographic at risk.