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In reply to the discussion: I just watched this PBS Special on line about the 1918 influenza outbreak.... [View all]renate
(13,776 posts)20. thanks, and hugs, to everybody who's posted their stories here
This thread is fascinating--even more so than I would have expected it to be nearly 100 years after the outbreak. (The story about Vivian and the little truck... heartbreaking. But how lovely that she's remembered all these years later, and that her sweetness is now known by all of us strangers.)
But WCG--what are you doing in a semi-isolated room in the hospital? Extra big to you!
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I just watched this PBS Special on line about the 1918 influenza outbreak.... [View all]
WCGreen
Feb 2012
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People used to die of many infectious diseases and suffer from parasites like lice
FarCenter
Feb 2012
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That's called a cytokene storm. And the Spanish Flu did mostly kill younger folks
kaiden
Feb 2012
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