Over 4,000 people die per year to cervical cancer.
How many people die each year in the US due to flu?
Between 3,000 and 49,000 a year (lot of fluctuation).
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/us_flu-related_deaths.htm
An August 27, 2010 MMWR report entitled "Estimates of Deaths Associated with Seasonal Influenza - United States, 1976-2007," provides updated estimates of the range of flu-associated deaths that occurred in the United States during the three decades prior to 2007. CDC estimates that from the 1976-1977 season to the 2006-2007 flu season, flu-associated deaths ranged from a low of about 3,000 to a high of about 49,000 people. ...The 36,000 estimate was presented in a 2003 study by CDC scientists published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), using similar statistical modeling techniques, but only refers to a period from 1990-91 through 1998-99. During those years, the number of estimated deaths ranged from 17,000 to 52,000, with an average of about 36,000. The JAMA study also looked at seasonal influenza-associated deaths over a 23 year period, from 1976-1977 and 1998-1999. During that period, estimates of respiratory and circulatory influenza-associated deaths ranged from about 5,000 to about 52,000, with an average of about 25,000. While the 36,000 number is often cited, it's important to note that during that decade, influenza A (H3N2) was the predominant virus during most of the seasons, and H3N2 influenza viruses are typically associated with higher death rates. CDC believes that the range of deaths over the past 31 years (~3,000 to ~49,000) is a more accurate representation of the unpredictability and variability of flu-associated deaths.
It varies, depending on the strain and the year...1918-1920 was a bad spread, with between 50,000,000 and 100,000,000 credited deaths.
According to Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today , Over 31 consecutive flu seasons, on average there were about 23,600 deaths a year linked to the flu -- varying from a low of 3,349 deaths in 1986-1987 to a high of 48,614 in 2003-2004