  CommentaryThe site of origin of the 1918 influenza pandemic and its public health implicationsJohn M Barry  Distinguished Visiting Scholar, the Center for Bioenvironmental Research of Tulane and Xavier Universities, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA  author email corresponding author email
Journal of Translational Medicine 2004,
2:3doi:10.1186/1479-5876-2-3
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20 January 2004 |
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The 1918–1919 influenza pandemic killed more people than any other outbreak of disease in human history. The lowest estimate of the death toll is 21 million, while recent scholarship estimates from 50 to 100 million dead. World population was then only 28% what is today, and most deaths occurred in a sixteen week period, from mid-September to mid-December of 1918. | 
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