The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_influenza_epidemic" id="mw6A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1918 influenza epidemic">1918 influenza epidemic</a> spreads to <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Samoa" id="mw6Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Western Samoa">Western Samoa</a>, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.