[Coleus]

years ago my grandma relayed a story to her children that she remembered the coffins stacked up on the streets of our city. I'm not too sure whether the flu killed them or secondary bacterial infections that took advantage of the opportunity of a compromised immune system. If that's the case, then antibiotics can be used to kill off the bacterial infections while the flu takes its course.

[Max in Utah]

...while the flu takes its course.

The problem with avian flu is that it causes an extremely high temperature; that's the most dangerous part of it.

[SunkenCiv]

The 1918 flu fatalities showed at least one of the symptoms as ebola fatalities, coughing up blood, from lung hemorrhages. Some of my older relatives remembered the events quite well (born in the 1890s) but none of them mentioned anyone they'd known dying of it. They lived in a rural area though.