In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.
The Spanish flu emerged as World War I was ending, but it would kill far more people than the conflict itself. Infecting roughly a third of the global population, it spread with terrifying speed. Some ...
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