[Wiseghy]

Lib unions went crazy resisting innoculation of small pox after 2001.

Perhaps we can come up with a voluntary system of innoculations for diseases that are no longer commonly found, but might be re-introduced accidentally or via terrorism. I know plenty who would pay for such protection.

[txroadkill]

I did a research paper about Woman's suffrage a couple of semesters ago and used the pandemic as one of the reasons the movement was successful at that time. During my research I would find horrible stories about how fast the flu killed, one example was of a college student who called a hospital to tell them that she just found her roommates really sick and she needed help. The hospital asked her how she felt and she said she felt fine. She was told to get out of the room and they would send an ambulance. When the ambulance arrived less than 20 minutes later they found everyone in the room dead including the caller who still had the phone in her hand.

[Corin Stormhands]

My grandmother had this flu. She died from cancer in 1958. But she was pregnant and sick in bed with the flu.

She lost her two year old son on Saturday, my uncle (who lived until 1983) was born on Wednesday, and she lost her four year old on Saturday.

[davisfh]

Interesting! Thanks for posting.

My father had this flu in 1918. He was a soldier and was in New Jersey awaiting transport to Europe when he became ill. He survived but was unconscious for two weeks and never made it to Europe.

Many of you are probably not aware that there was an Encephalitis associated with the 1918 flu. The Encephalitis caused a condition commonly referred to as "sleeping sickness." My father was affected by this and would sometimes fall asleep for no apparent reason.

The Encephalitis was also recurrent and would sometimes recur in its most virulent form. This happened to him in 1946 and he died at the age of 56.

[Hot Tabasco]

These survivors, now aged 91 to 101

Everyone else is dead.......not a very good survival rate.

[wildbill]

The 1918 pandemic has been largely ignored or underplayed in U.S. history courses.

Millions died, many within hours of contracting the virus.

[SatinDoll]

There was a book published a few years ago on this very subject. John M. Barry authored “The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History”.

Very slow going because of all the historical background and details. Woodrow Wilson comes off looking horrible; he was responsible for creating delays in counter-acting the spread of the disease.

[metmom]

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