<P> Worst affected was German Samoa, today the independent state of Samoa, which had been occupied by New Zealand in 1914 . A crippling 90% of the population was infected; 30% of adult men, 22% of adult women and 10% of children died . By contrast, the flu was kept away from American Samoa when Governor John Martin Poyer imposed a blockade . In New Zealand itself, 8,573 deaths were attributed to the 1918 pandemic influenza, resulting in a total population fatality rate of 0.74% . In Ireland, the Spanish Flu accounted for 10% of the total deaths in 1918 which can be seen as quite detrimental considering World War 1 was still occurring . </P> <P> In Japan, 257,363 deaths were attributed to influenza by July 1919, giving an estimated 0.425% mortality rate, much lower than nearly all other Asian countries for which data are available . The Japanese government severely restricted maritime travel to and from the home islands when the pandemic struck . </P> <P> In the Pacific, American Samoa and the French colony of New Caledonia also succeeded in preventing even a single death from influenza through effective quarantines . In Australia, nearly 12,000 perished . </P> <P> By the end of the pandemic, the isolated island of Marajó, in Brazil's Amazon River Delta had not reported an outbreak . </P>

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