>
>And here's another one that most living Americans don't know about (and
>maybe Europeans as well). That's the 1918-19 influenza pandemic. It
>killed 675,000 Americans and 20-40 million people elsewhere including
>very many WWI soldiers. <https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/>
>
I'm surprised that I forgot that one. Thank you for reminding me.
>
>It radically pruned a branch of my family tree by killing mother, father
>and 6 of the children. Fortunately for me, it didn't kill my
>grandfather and grandmother who survived to produce my father in 1921.
>They're all buried in a mass grave in a little cemetery in Berkley,
>Massachusetts. No stones or markers as in the rest of this old cemetery,
>just a slight depression in the ground over an an area of maybe 8x8
>feet. The cemetery says there are no records of it and no one is buried
>there. My father, taught where it was as a child, told me otherwise.
>
They recently exhumed a number of victims of that pandemic in Antarctica
in order to study the genetics of that strain.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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