PHL history professor analyzes the similarities between the two pandemics set a century apart, and what lessons could be learned from the 1918-1919 flu pandemic (Eagle News) – A hundred years ago, from 1918 to 1919, a virus pandemic infected 500 million worldwide – a third of the world’s population at that time – killing as many as 50 million people, according to conservative estimates. In the Philippines, the so-called “Spanish flu” pandemic killed […]





