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The Spanish flu — The 1918–1919 pandemic, deadlier than the war
Born elsewhere but named for neutral Spain — only its free press reported it —, the pandemic swept the world in three waves: tens of millions dead, two hundred and forty thousand of them in France. Apollinaire, weakened by his war wound, died of it two days before the armistice. (Editorial synthesis)
The Spanish flu began in 1918. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The Spanish flu ended in 1919. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The Spanish flu ended in tens of millions dead worldwide — more than the war itself. (source: Archives nationales and Encyclopædia Universalis)
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