The influenza pandemic of 1918 The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster…
Part Seven: (Don’t Count Your Children ’til they’ve had the POX) Killer Plagues of Our Modern Era – Plummet from Natural Causes..?
Killer Plagues of Children become tamer throughout the 20th Century Fig. 1: Chart of the annual number of deaths in Ireland recorded from the combined major killers of all ages of impacting mostly infants and children: Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Measles, Diphtheria & Polio. Source: Chart generated using this tumultuous statistics reports since records began…
