[neverdem]

FReepmail me if you want on or off my combined microbiology/immunology ping list.

[wbill]

I recently went through my old family cemetary. It was...I don't know the word...shocking? gruesome? ... to see entire families wiped out in a matter of a few days. There were a good handful of instances in that one cemetary.

These were pre- Spanish Flu, most of the dates were in the early to mid 1800's. I'd guess smallpox or cholera, but that's just a guess.

[DuncanWaring]

Greatest plague in history?

Worse than the Black Death (Bubonic plague epidemic)?

Perhaps in absolute numbers of victims, but probably not in the proportion of the population killed.

[Chainmail]

Remembering Great Aunt Martha Pfautz Mohn, died age 21,1918

[Bigg Red]

mark

[stayathomemom]

I read the book mentioned in the article as well as "FLU" by Gina Kolata a few years ago. If I remember correctly, it's hard to find detailed personal accounts of the pandemic because it was so devastating to those involved that reliving it by writing about it was too horrible for many.
My mom was a baby at the time and I believe that my grandfather got sick and was unable to preach for a couple of Sundays. She said it was about the only time he missed "work" in his over 60 years of preaching.

[redgolum]

Last year, I was helping a friend’s folks move into a new house. We found a stack of old postcards from 1918. In the cards, there were a large number of death notices from the flu.

One of the great uncles had both of his girlfriends die from it. He never married. Many lost at least one family member.

[redgolum]

Last year, I was helping a friend’s folks move into a new house. We found a stack of old postcards from 1918. In the cards, there were a large number of death notices from the flu.

One of the great uncles had both of his girlfriends die from it. He never married. Many lost at least one family member.