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Let’s put the swine flu in perspective

Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 29, 2009

The total number of deaths in World War One was 16 million. The number of deaths as a result of the Spanish flu which followed in 1918 was somewhere between 30 and 80 million. In the 14th century the Black Death is estimated to have killed 75 million people (including anywhere from 30% to 60% [...]


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