Note: this topic is from . Thanks beaversmom. It's almost as if uncontrolled immigration (a.k.a. human tsunami) has a down side.
Posted on 01/28/2018 9:29:30 AM PST by beaversmom
Thanks for catching my error.
It was last century! 1918!
My Dad’s 28 year old brother and same age SIL were never sick with the exception on an occasional cold.
My maternal grandfather died of the Spanish influenza November 6, 1918.
My wife’s late father said his grandmother told him about entire family’s being wiped out in a few days time in the hollers of eastern Kentucky. They were fine one day and three days later small to large families all dead. Said it roared through the hollers like wild fire.
Are you saying it happened last year?)
I often write the wrong date well into February...
My paternal great grandmother became sick with the flu on October 4th and passed on October 9, 1918. The newspaper article said that local medical help was summoned but unable to overcome the illness.
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/influenza_pandemic
The above is a link to a long and interesting article about the war and the flu. I’ve read other accounts that the war was “called” on account of the flu - but that is probably too simple.
The above article describes how it affected the different nations at different, critical times. Below is an excerpt from the end of the article, quoting a German Prince:
“On 3 August Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria (1869-1955) wearily noted, “Poor provisions, heavy losses and the deepening influenza have deeply depressed the spirits of the men in the III Infantry Division.”[43] It is a mark of how significant Ludendorff subsequently judged the loss of his men to the “Spanish” influenza to have been in impairing his offensives that, when, late in September, the writing was on the wall for Germany and he himself on the point of a nervous breakdown, he told the army’s Surgeon-General that the recent fresh outbreak of the pandemic in the French army might yet offer Germany a “last chance” against outright defeat, just as in 1762 the sudden “miraculous” death of Elizabeth, Empress of Russia (1709-1762) had saved Prussia from defeat in the Seven Years’ War.[44]
And we still have radio commercials about it
My father was born in Newark, NJ in 1920. With records I found through genealogy research I was able to prove to him that he had a sister who was born and died before my father was born. He never knew about this sister and we speculated that she had died during this epidemic.
Several years ago I read an article that implied that a fight between American and German troops in a tunnel is what introduced the influenza into the German army.
Note: this topic is from . Thanks beaversmom. It's almost as if uncontrolled immigration (a.k.a. human tsunami) has a down side.
Are you referring to a current flu in the fall of 2019? The article refers to a bad flu that year, but the article is from January 2018.
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Yes - the fit young people died at a higher rate. Called a Cytokine storm. I am one of those that believes WW I was “called” on the account of the flu. And then picked up again as WW II due to all of the unfinished business. I’m no expert though.
Our Grandfather’s first wife and two children, IIRC, died during this pandemic. Near Love Field, Dallas.
One of the best books I’ve read.
In the Kolata book is the interesting tidbit, well, two really, that the previous years (1916, 1917) and two following years (1919, 1920) also had very devasting outbreaks of flu; and that the last really bad flu outbreak of the 19th c was apparently similar genetically to the Spanish Lady, because those old enough to have had that bad outbreak in teh 1890s had immunity to the SL.
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