500 million people affected even remote villages? Unusual in that it was most devastating to the population usually the most capable of fighting off disease? People of childbearing age? Certainly doesn't sound 'natural' to me.... This probably on the heels of whatever 'mudflood' catastrophe happened.


"The 1918 influenza pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving...

1918 Influenza Pandemic resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million