Influenza of 1918 (Special Edition)

Overview

Influenza of 1918 was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. It infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and killed 50 to 100 million of them three to five percent of the world's population making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history.