No one escapes the big flu

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The Spanish flu has affected all regions of the world, from Europe to Asia - here Japan. Getty Images / Bettmann

By: Caroline Lachowsky

New episode of little and big story of epidemics devoted to the Spanish flu of 1918, the worst epidemic of the 20th century. Between 50 and 100 million people died, on all continents. Only a few isolated islands were spared, as the geographer Freddy Vinet recounts at Caroline Lachowsky's microphone.

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Freddy Vinet  is a geographer, professor and director of the geography department at the University of Montpellier. He is the author of The Great Flu. 1918, the worst epidemic of the century, published by Vendémiaire.

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