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Originally Posted by thulfi
You would think that considering the worlds deadliest natural disaster thats on record only happened less than a century ago, more people would know about it. Never heard a teacher mention it at school or uni.
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Rather a sad indictment of current schools. Cannot remember where or when I learnt of the Spanish flu pandemic, but was a long time ago, probably secondary school. Perhaps those bald figures will make people realise why 'they' are so worried about another pandemic and the 'scaremongering' regarding Bird flu and Swine flu is in fact based on genuine concerns.
The one that I find pretty staggering is the 25 million killed by a drought and famine in India over just two years! Had not heard of that, so might look into it.