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may 7, 1889 - Russian Flu

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It happened in the fall in St. Petersberg. The cause was a h2n2 variant of the influenza. Hundreds of millions of people became sick and about one million people died. It was only a mortality rate of less than one percent.

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may 7, 1889
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~ 136 years ago