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the 1918 flu pandemic was worse than the black plague and it's not even airborne like this one. http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2003/vol7n30/KillerViru

• gojomo 17y ago
  Neither of your claims check out. The black plague killed a higher proportion of the world's population, and the 1918 Spanish Flu was airborne, like other flus.
• tomjen 17y ago
  There are properly more people living in Washington DC than in Europe during the time of the plague.
  • gojomo 17y ago
    Not at all. According to Wikipedia, the population of Europe before the plague peaked at 70-100 million, while the plague killed 25-50 million, still leaving the population over 20 million, possibly over 50 million. The population of Washington DC is 592,000; if you include the metro area, 5.3 million.