Spanish Flu 1918

The 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, spread around the world was an severe influenza pandemic that spread around the world. Unlike in most flu outbreaks, most of the victims of the Spanish flu were healthy young adults (like me!?). In normal flu pandemics, victims are usually the young, the weak, or the elderly. This pandemic resulted in the deaths of 50-100 million people and remains one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history. 10 to 20 percent of the people infected died from the disease.

World War 1 is credited with helping the flu spread. Close quarters and troop movements quickened in speed and increased in number its transmission.