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The Asiatic Flu or Russian Flu was an outbreak of influenza from 1889 to 1894, which was purportedly spread by travelers on trains and ocean liners. A brutal winter exacerbated the pandemic.
An estimated 1 million people died out of 1.5 billion worldwide.
This was the first of the modern flu pandemics, though underpublicized today.