River Valley Pioneer Museum | Canadian, Texas
In 1918 until spring 1919, the “Spanish flu” circled the globe. It is estimated that 500 million worldwide were infected, which was about a third of the world’s population at the time. An estimated 50 million worldwide died from the virus or from complications of it. The 1918 pandemic killed approximately 3 percent of the world’s population, including a staggering 675,000 in the United States.
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