If your ancestors are of European decent, that’s highly unlikely... If you’re of North American indigenous decent, or Australian indigenous decent you may have ancestors who avoided it... At some point, it likely existed in pretty much every other part of the known world.
Then again... Maybe you got a lucky (or unlucky) set of genes. I’d assume that you would likely be better of to have somebody in your genealogical past who actually survived it.
“Then again, Maybe you got a lucky (or unlucky) set of genes. I’d assume that you would likely be better of to have somebody in your genealogical past who actually survived it.”
My Dad was drafted during WWI, and he was a druggist and was injured in a motorcycle training accident, back, shoulder and neck.
He was an orphan and was raised by his aunt and an older brother. His stay in the hospital was at the height of the 1918 flu. He had his nurses make an outdoor bed for him to get out of the hospital and get a lot of sunshine. He took minimal aspirin and a lot of liquids and gargled with Listerine.
His brother drove to the Army hospital, saw my Dad that day and the next morning, then he drove home. 3 days later he died from the 1918 flu. My Dad was discharged and disabled due to his motorcycle wreck and rode home in bus/ambulance.
His aunt, who helped raise him after his mother and a close aunt died in the early 1900’s, probably from a flu. She helped him to recover from the flu and motorcycle wreck.
No one in that Aunt’s family got the flu, nor did his brother’s wife and young children.