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Originally Posted by SMG
Thats quite a good point, however, one Billion people caught the flu, this was at a time when international travel was nowhere near as common as it is today, now, millions of people roam the world freely. How would those numbers transpose today?
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One billion people caught the flu precisely at a time of unprecedented levels of international travel as many millions of people returned home from the Great War. Levels of malnourishment were higher and hospital treatment was less available and less sophisticated even where you could get it.
It's highly unlikely that, in the West at least, those numbers would transpose into anything like the level of death that occurred in 1918.