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The Great Flu Pandemic of 1918-19 killed more people than any other outbreak of disease in history. It is believed that between 50 and 100 million died from what was then known as “Spanish Flu”. Extraordinary. It most often killed those in the prime of life, and it killed with extraordinary swiftness, often ripping the lungs apart.Newspaper reports from those years provide a grim picture of the carnage caused by the pandemic. “Death itself would come fast… reports were common of people who toppled off horses, collapsed on the sidewalk…We have had a number of cases where people were perfectly healthy and died within twelve hours…One robust person showed the first symptoms at 4:00P.M. and died by 10:00P.M..” For those serving in the military, the impact of the pandemic was catastrophic. The captain of the World War I troop transport ship the Leviathan would report “The burials at sea began…The transports became floating caskets.” Death rates in military encampments were equally horrific.

There is new genetic research showing that the deadly outbreak of 1918-19 was a strain of avian or bird flu.

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