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the spanish flu outbreak 1918 :: Article Creator Spanish Flu Pandemic 1918 - Could It Happen Again? A warehouse being used as a makeshift hospital for flu patients in 1918 It is 100 years since the influenza pandemic killed millions around the world, a death toll far worse than the bubonic plague. But what is the chance of something similar happening again? New strains of flu continue to emerge and experts warn that another pandemic could happen despite a century of advances in technology and healthcare. During the 1918-19 outbreak, it was thought that Spanish flu was caused by bacteria rather than a virus. Viruses are now better understood, but scientists have also learned a great deal from studying the pandemic which struck a century ago. A coloured transmission electron micrograph of A strain H5N1 They learned how very differently it could behave to our usual experience of seasonal flu. It hit proportionately more younger ...