> a global pandemic far worse than any in living memory
I beleive author means that 1918 Spanish flu, with death toll of 25m to 50m according to different sources, is something no on living today has a memory of.
But smallpox death toll in XX century was about 300m, and there are a lot of people alive with memories of it.
I beleive author means that 1918 Spanish flu, with death toll of 25m to 50m according to different sources, is something no on living today has a memory of.
But smallpox death toll in XX century was about 300m, and there are a lot of people alive with memories of it.