OMG-and-mind-blowing-fact #3

The deadliest flu pandemic in history took more lives than World War II did. 


The “Spanish Flu,” as it has been nicknamed, struck worldwide from the spring of 1918 until the summer of 1919. It has been estimated that the flu killed 21,642,274 people worldwide, with a billion people been affected - that’s half of the Earth’s population at that time! 


This was the third worst epidemic in modern history - the likes of which humanity had not seen seen the bubonic plague during the Middle Ages!