Centenary of 20th century`s worst pandemic
(WorldNews South Korea)

Influenza victims crowd into an emergency hospital near Fort Riley, Kansas, in this 1918 file photo. AP Spanish flu wiped out up to 100 million lives. Experts warn it could happen again By Jung Min-ho Hakim Djaballah One hundred years ago, a deadly infectious disease spread across the globe, infecting 500 million people - about one-third of the world`s population at the time - and killing at least 50 million. At minimum, the Spanish flu killed three times as many as died in World War I (17 million). At worst (100 million), it was more lethal than World War II (60 million) - and even both wars put together. As historians mark the centenary of the flu outbreak, two important questions arise...