Photos That Captured the Most Chilling Moments in History

1918 Pandemic

Women of the Red Cross make masks during the pandemic of 1918. The Spanish Flu was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic that lasted from 1918 to 1920 and infected about a third of the world's population at the time in four successive waves. The death toll is estimated to be anywhere from 17 million to 100 million, making it one of the deadliest in human history.

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