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New flu pandemic ‘would kill 62 million’ December 21, 2006

Posted by mikealao in Uncategorized.
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Pandemic flu would kill 62 million people around the world, most of them in poorer countries, a new estimate suggests. The figures assume that a new pandemic would follow the same pattern as the 1918 Spanish flu, which killed at least 20 million people at a time when the world’s population was much smaller.

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