It is estimated that the Spanish flu killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years and more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. Hence it is referred to as “the greatest medical holocaust in history”. The pandemic which started in the final year of the First World War not only killed more people than the World War I but it killed more people than all the wars of the 20th century combined.
The mortality rate of the 1918 flu was up to 20% of those infected which is 200 times the usual flu epidemic mortality rate of 0.1%. With nearly one third of the global population being infected it is estimated that three to six percent of the world’s population died due to the pandemic. 500 million people were infected across the world and 50 to 100 million of them were killed.
The 1918 flu spread across the world even to remote areas like Pacific islands and the Arctic. A large factor in the worldwide occurrence of this flu was increased travel. Modern transportation systems made it easier for people to spread the disease. By the end of the pandemic, only one major region on the entire planet had not reported an outbreak: an isolated island called Marajo, located in Brazil’s Amazon River Delta.
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Answer:From 1918 to 1919, the Spanish flu infected an estimated 500 million people globally. This amounted to about 33% of the world's population at the time. In addition, the Spanish flu killed about 50 million people. About 675,000 of the deaths were in the U.S
