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Influenza pandemic London, Dec. 19 — The Times medical correspondent says it seems reasonable to believe that throughout the world about 6 million persons perished from influenza and pneumonia during the past three months. It has been estimated that the war caused the death of 20 million persons in four and a half years. Thus, the correspondent points out that influenza has proved itself five times deadlier than war, because in the same period, at its epidemic rate, influenza would have killed 100 million. (Worldwide deaths from the 1918 influenza were estimated at 50 million, about 675...
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