# We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918

Department of Health and Human Services Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918 ICN #006719 - January 2010 PIN 700293 In 1918-1919, the worst flu in recorded history killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. The U.S. death toll was 675,000 - five times the number of U.S. soldiers killed in World War I. Where did the 1918 flu come from? Why was it so lethal? What did we learn? Study materials are available at avaianflu.gov.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 2010
- By: Health and Human Services
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.hhs.cms.006719)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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