1918 flu killed more than 50 million people Worldwide during that pandemic

 At 50 million deaths worldwide it competes with World War II for the most deaths from any cause in history because World War II is credited with 50 to 100 million deaths, 20 million just in Russia mostly from starvation during the Nazi invasion.

So, pandemics like the one that is scourging Africa right now, Ebola,  can kill millions when not able to be controlled in situations like Africa where people generally aren't medically disciplined enough and where people touch the bodies of the dead during funerals to say goodbye, which is how most people are getting the virus now in Liberia and other West African nations.

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic - virus

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... killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), ... "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster. .... that the practitioners are brought very near the breaking point," (BMJ, 11/2/1918).

The Influenza Epidemic of 1918

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The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 killed more people than died in World War One. View the ... The influenza epidemic that swept the world in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people. One fifth of ... The plague emerged in two phases. In late ...

1918 flu pandemic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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It infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and ... The close quarters and massive troop movements of World War I hastened the ... The global mortality rate from the 1918/1919 pandemic is not known, but an ... It is said that this flu killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 ...

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More recent estimates have estimated global mortality from the 1918-1919 ... after World War II, funding for research on the 1918-1919 pandemic remained limited. ... While more people died from the pandemic than from World War I, the war ...

1918 Flu Pandemic That Killed 50 Million Originated in China

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Jan 23, 2014 - The global flu outbreak of 1918 killed 50 million people worldwide, ranking as ... The deadly "Spanish flu" claimed more lives than World War I, which ended ... So desperate was the need for labor that on March 2, 1918, a ship ...