Answer: In 1918 there was a flu called the Spanish Flu also known as the Great Influenza epidemic. The first case was recorded in march 1918 in Kansas, United States. Two years after over 500 million people were infected by the flu in four waves. With a death rate of 17-50 million deaths and maybe even as high as 100 million. During that time a majority of the deaths ranged between the ages of 25-40 years old. The flu broke out at the end of world war 1. Some news outlets tried to hide the outbreak in an attempt to keep up morale but others reported on the outbreaks happening in Spain.