mexican flu

[Jester]

Spanish flu was a mere blip on the radar by comparison. The Plague was the only period in recorded history where the human deaths outstripped live births for any significant length of time. It wiped out on average just under half the population of the affected regions, while the 1918 outbreak took fewer lives both in absolute terms and in relation to the overall population size.

Bring back the Black Death, I say.

I guess you're right. 100 million deaths is nothing to really get excited about. After all, it's not the single largest source of deaths in history, so who cares that it's a dozen holocausts' worth of corpses? Mere blips on the radar.

-Jester