The Spanish Flu as it was known claimed the lives of anywhere from 50-100 million people from mid-1918-1920. Brought on from the end of the First World War, the disease affected an estimated 500 million (28% of the global population of the time), killing 3% of the world's humans. It spread all over, even reaching the Arctic and remote Pacific islands. While it was not related to Spain, it was given the name due to both the King of Spain becoming gravely ill with it and the fact that the most reliable coverage at the time came from Spain.
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