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Spanish flu or Spanish influenza, also known as purulent bronchitis, may refer to:
- the 1918 flu pandemic where 500 million people worldwide were infected with H1N1 influenza A virus between 1918 and 1920, killing from 20 to 100 million people
- the Influenza A virus subtype H1N1 which caused the influenza pandemic between 1918 and 1920, as well as the 2009 swine flu pandemic and 1977 Russian flu pandemic
See also
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- Flu (disambiguation)
- Influenzavirus, the viruses that cause influenza disease
- Influenza pandemic, "the influenza" global mass disease for a given year