Alex Tabarrok has this post over at Marginal Revolution reviewing The Great Influenza.
The great influenza of 1918 probably killed 100 million people, about five percent of the entire world's population. An even higher percentage of young people died and most shockingly all of this occured in about 12 weeks.
As is that wasn't astounding in itself, Tabarrok also links to another article that tracks the long term generation impacts of pandemic. Science is so cool.
Posted by binky at August 25, 2005 10:11 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Science