Posted on 10/28/2014 7:57:23 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
God help us! World health officials have not been very helpful
Decaying corpses were stacked all over the burial ground and the streets were littered with the dead. When trains arrived at railroad stations, they had to be cleared of dead and dying passengers. The killer was Spanish influenza of 1918-19. In the U.S., about 500,000 people died, mostly young adults! This plague started (at least in the U.S.) in a Kansas army camp and within a week it was in every state!
It then jumped the Atlantic Ocean to cut down millions. Five million people died in India! Total world deaths are estimated to have been up to 100 million people and this pandemic has been called “the greatest medical holocaust in history.”
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My father told me of this. When he was a kid in Illinois right after WW-1. He said is was devastating and had every one scared to death.
Back in the 1970s a doctor said he was not worried about a flu epidemic like 1918. He said most of the people back then died of the resulting pneumonia and we today have antibiotics to stop that which they did not have back in 1918.
My Great Grandfather got it and nearly died, ironically after returning home from, and surviving WWI.
This is true but the 20th century I think totalitarian government made up a lot of the difference.
My father remembered everyone in his family being sick, but no one died. He said it wasn’t much fin with no running water in the house and no washing machine to help with the clean up.
fin = fun
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