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current estimates say 50–100 million people worldwide were killed.[34]
This pandemic has been described as "the greatest medical holocaust in history" and may have killed more people than the Black Death.[35] It is said that this flu killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century.[36]
The disease killed in every corner of the globe. As many as 17 million died in India, about 5% of the population.[37] The death toll in India's British-ruled districts alone was 13.88 million.[38] In Japan, 23 million people were affected, and 390,000 died.[39] In the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), 1.5 million were assumed to have died among 30 million inhabitants.[40] In Tahiti, 13% of the population died during only a month. Similarly, in Samoa in November 1918, 22% of the population of 38,000 died within two months.[41] In the U.S., about 28% of the population suffered, and 500,000 to 675,000 died.[42] Native American tribes were particularly hard hit. In the Four Corners area alone, 3,293 deaths were registered among Native Americans.[43] Entire village communities perished in Alaska.[44] In Canada 50,000 died.[45] In Brazil 300,000 died, including president Rodrigues Alves.[46] In Britain, as many as 250,000 died; in France, more than 400,000.[47] In West Africa, an influenza epidemic killed at least 100,000 people in Ghana.[48] Tafari Makonnen (the future Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia) was one of the first Ethiopians who contracted influenza but survived,[49] although many of his family's subjects did not; estimates for the fatalities in the capital city, Addis Ababa, range from 5,000 to 10,000, or higher.[50] In British Somaliland one official estimated that 7% of the native population died.[51]
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