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"The 1918 avian influenza pandemic has been called “the greatest medical holocaust in history.” In a few short months, it killed 50,100 million people. It had a very high mortality rate, in excess of 2%, whereas annual flu epidemics, which kill 250,500 thousand people each year, have a mortality rate of about 0.1%. The 1918 flu pandemic killed more people in a year than the Black Death of the Middle Ages killed in a century; it killed more people in 25 weeks than HIV/AIDS killed in 25 years. A n
- Author
- David Ritchey
- Publisher
- Headline Books, Incorporated
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781882658268
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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