How Spanish Flu swept the globe 100 years ago

Name: How Spanish Flu swept the globe 100 years ago
Uploaded: 2018-09-19T00:10:27.000Z
Duration: 1 min 12 s
Description: A hundred years ago Spanish Flu claimed the lives of more people than died in World War One.

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One hundred years ago a deadly killer disease spread across the globe and its death toll would dwarf the number of lives lost in the fighting of World War One. It became known as Spanish Flu.

Colin McKenzie's great uncle Albert McKenzie died of influenza at Chatham Naval Hospital in October 1918, a few days after his 20th birthday.

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19 September 2018