How the Spanish Flu Pandemic Changed the World

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8/31/2023Updated: 8/31/2023

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World War I wasn’t the deadliest event of the 1910s.

That designation belongs to what some have called “the forgotten pandemic,” a global outbreak of influenza in 1918 that not only outstripped World War I’s mortality rate, but might even be the single deadliest event in recent human history.

Walker Larson

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Prior to becoming a freelance journalist and culture writer, Walker Larson taught literature and history at a private academy in Wisconsin, where he resides with his wife and daughter. He holds a master's in English literature and language, and his writing has appeared in The Hemingway Review, Intellectual Takeout, and his Substack, The Hazelnut. He is also the author of two novels, "Hologram" and "Song of Spheres."

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