[Swiss]

**1918 was the worst disaster in human history.**

Bull, it killed more persons but thats because the population is much greater.

Other than some isolated cases the death rates of the 1918 flu never came close to what Smallpox did to the native Americans or the Plague did to Europe in the middle ages.

[Jim Verdolini]

"Other than some isolated cases the death rates of the 1918 flu never came close to what Smallpox did to the native Americans or the Plague did to Europe in the middle ages."

Both disasters took place in limited areas over a far longer period and killed vastly fewer people.

I said it was the worst disaster in human history. I did not say european history or native american history.

You are not grasping the difference. In 1918, between september and march 1919, the flu killed over 40 million people. Where it hit, normal life stoped. Read the history of the event.

try these links

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza/sfeature/boston.html

http://www.jhsph.edu/publichealthnews/magazine/archive/Mag_Fall04/prologues/page2.html

http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/1198/lynch.html