Spanish Flu in 1933 and 1934

What if there was a recurrence of the Spanish flu in 1933 and 1934, killing 100 to 125 million people?
 
That would be hard given how much better organized the bureaucratic states were. It would have to be really ultra virulent and different from the 1917 strain. The various dictatorships aren't going to screw around on the matter with mass quarantines, the movement of people being shut down where needed and public health serves even in the US with the gloves off.

Expect a shit ton of money to be put by the various states into medical research and development in a way that didn't happen in the teens.
 
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I don't know if it would spread as effectively, or with such lethality.

Since it went world wide just 14-15 years earlier, a good bit of the population have already been exposed to it; and those who have been exposed, whether they got sick from it or not, are now immune to the virus and probably any close relative to that virus. (Immune systems have good memories.) So, when they get re-exposed in '34, they don't get sick, AND they don't carry it and spread it to those who aren't immune.
 
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