[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

I recall reading somewhere, that the 1918 influenza was preceded by a less deadly flu in the spring of 1918, and some think it may have mutated into the deadlier one that killed so many people later that year.
My great-grandfather died in the epidemic. Came through the war without a scratch, in his early 20’s, came home, took sick one day in October and died the very next day.

[riri]

Isn’t it true though that most died of secondary bacterial infections??

[garandgal]

Came through the war without a scratch, in his early 20’s, came home, took sick one day in October and died the very next day.

Same thing happened to my Grandma's cousin...a nurse in Europe during the war; made it back and died from the flu at the age of 23.

[unkus]

My grandmother died in the 1918 epedemic. She was 25 and my dad was only 3 months old.