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Events on Tuesday 1 October 1957 1
1957Asian flu pandemic spreads worldwideH2N2 influenza outbreak kills over a million peopleAn influenza pandemic caused by the H2N2 virus, first identified in China, spread across Asia, Europe, and the Americas over the course of 1957. It killed an estimated one to two million people worldwide before subsiding.