![]() ![]() If such a plague returned today, taking a comparable percentage of the U.S. Eskimos living in remote outposts in the frozen tundra succumbed to the flu in such numbers that entire villages were wiped out. ![]() More American soldiers were killed by the 1918 flu than were killed in battle during World War I. An estimated forty million people died as the pandemic raged. But in 1918 the Great Flu Epidemic felled the young and healthy virtually overnight. ![]() When we think of plagues, we think of AIDS, Ebola, anthrax spores, and, of course, the Black Death. Feeling feverish, tired, or achy? Listening to Gina Kolata's engrossing account of the 1918 Influenza epidemic is sure to give you the chills. ![]()
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