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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 536
returned in 1347. Between 1347 and 1351 Europe was devastated by the Black Death, at least
one-third of Europeans died.
1989
Pope Clement VI commissioned the dead to be counted
worldwide; his statistics show 42,836,486 deaths.
1990
Some of the other diseases that caused
plagues before the twentieth century include Cholera, Measles, Small Pox, Malaria,
Tuberculosis, and Yellow Fever.
Of all the plagues in history, there is none that infected as many people around the world,
killed as many, and killed in such a short period of time as the 1917-1918 Spanish Flu
pandemic.
1991
The best estimates place the number of worldwide deaths at 30 to 40 million in less
than one year. With an average death rate of 2.5 percent, the number of people infected
worldwide would be approximately 1.2 to 1.6 billion.
1992
This plague occurred within a year of the Balfour Declaration. Gina Kolata in her book
FLU says that the plague was “like a biblical prophecy come true…” She writes:
They called the plague of 1918 influenza, but it was like no influenza ever
seen before. It was more like a biblical prophecy come true, something from
Revelations that predicted that first the world was to be struck by war, then
famine, and then, with the breaking of the fourth seal of the scroll foretelling the
future, the appearance of a horse, “deathly pale, and its rider was called Plague,
and Hades followed at its heels.”
1993
The 1918 plague or flu hit the United States hard. “More than 25 percent of the U.S.
population” was infected with the Flu, approximately 25 million people. Of these twenty-five
million, approximately 675,000 died.
1994
The rate of infection and death in the military was even
higher than the general population. The Navy estimated that 40 percent of its members got the
flu; the Army estimated 36 percent.
1995
Almost eighty percent of all US casualties during WW I or 256,000 military personnel
came down with the flu and approximately 43,000 died.
1996
The horrific results of the plague on
the military can be seen in the experience of the 88th Division. The 88th Division arrived in
France in the fall of 1918. The division entered combat for the first time on October 24th and
fought for the rest of the war. A total of 90 men from the 88th were killed, wounded, missing or
captured. The total of its flu cases were 6,845 and 444 died as a result of the flu.
1997
The flu had similar effects on the military personnel in all the nations involved in WW I.
While those on the front lines sustained most of the battle wounds, the flu did not discriminate.
The flu killed soldiers on the front lines, medics, support personnel, doctors, nurses and officers
equally. It was devastating in the civilian population also; the flu closed factories and hampered
crop harvests. The flu was so devastating that it was a major contributing factor in ending the
war; some believe the flu was the most important contributing factor in bringing the war to an
end.
According to The Disaster Center, the Spanish flu was the deadliest natural disaster in the
20th Century. Along with the flu, there have been many other diseases both old and new that have
killed tens of millions worldwide. These include:
Smallpox – during the twentieth century smallpox killed nearly 300 million people
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