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Comment author: Mac 21 February 2015 05:11:21PM 2 points [-]

World War I also enabled the 1918 flu pandemic, which was arguably more costly than the war itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

Admittedly, it is difficult to know how severe the pandemic would have been in the absence of war.