France 24 put together this interesting report into the Spanish Flu of 1918, which is estimated to have killed more than 50 million people globally.
We still don’t know where the Spanish Flu came from, but it became a pandemic when it reached Europe in 1918. Some estimates put the death toll at more than 50 million people worldwide.
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Spanish Flu almost certainly did not originate in Spain, but was first reported in the country owing to the nation’s neutral position in WWI, which enabled them more press freedom.
There are echoes of this disaster as the world battles Covid-19.