6 Swine Flu: 285-580 Thousand Victims

The pandemic broke out in 2009. Unlike other pandemics, swine flu was opposed to the entire powerful modern healthcare system, but it was still very deadly.

The virus was a variant of the known H1N1 strain. This infection caused a terrible outbreak of Spanish flu in 1918. At least 20% of the world’s population was infected. Its distribution was especially severe in the United States, where 113,690 cases of infection and more than 3,000 deaths were confirmed.

Other mutations of the same virus that caused the Asian flu epidemic in 1958 and 1968 are thought to have caused the deaths of millions of people around the world. However, in general, their mortality rate was lower.