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In reply to the discussion: I just watched this PBS Special on line about the 1918 influenza outbreak.... [View all]Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)26. My father and his siblings survived it
but were too young to have any strong memories.
My maternal grandparents were recently married and moved out to a small town in North Dakota so that my grandfather could take a teaching job. A young woman who had just graduated from college also arrived at the same time to take a job, but she died of the flu a couple of months later.
One day some people noticed that a certain farm family had not been in church for two weeks. (This would have been unusual in small town North Dakota in 1918.) Some of the other members of the church went out to investigate and found the parents and three children all dead.
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I just watched this PBS Special on line about the 1918 influenza outbreak.... [View all]
WCGreen
Feb 2012
OP
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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