How vaccination is helping to prevent another flu pandemic
Small child receives vaccination (Shutterstock)

By Nicole Iovine, Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases, University of Florida. An injectable flu vaccination. Flu vaccines lessen the likelihood of getting the flu and its severity. Flickr/, CC BY-SA Researchers believe that over 50 million people worldwide died in the 1918 flu pandemic, making it possibly worse than even the Black Death that began in the 14th century.