(1918) Deadliest flu pandemic in recorded history beginsHundreds of soldiers at Fort Riley, Kansas, are sick with a virulent form of influenza, prompting the first reporting of the epidemic. The flu will go on to infect some 500 million people and kill between 50 million and 100 million, according to most estimates.The 1918 flu pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. It infected 500 million people around the world, including people on remote Pacific islands and in the Arctic, and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history.
Fatalities: 50,000,000
Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, ill with Spanish influenza at a hospital ward at Camp Funston wiki/1918_flu_pandemic4.8.d17
(1918) Deadliest flu pandemic in recorded history begins
