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February 27, 1919, St. Louis, Missouri, USA: Members of the American Red Cross remove Spanish influenza victims from a house at Etzel and Page avenues in 1919. The flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common name the Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in the state of Kansas in the United States, with further cases recorded in France, Germany and the United Kingdom in April. Nearly a third of the global population, or an estimated 500 million people, have been infected in four successive waves. Estimates of deaths range from 17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million - ZUMAm67_ 19190227_pj1_s68_001 Copyright: xSt.xLouisxPost-Dispatchx