A look at the Spanish Flu

Posted At : April 29, 2009 8:29 AM
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Makeshift Hospital in Iowa during the 1918 Flu EpidemicAs the swine flu story continues to grow, I felt the need to look up the main reference point: the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic. This for two reasons: people keep saying “this one could be as bad as the Spanish Flu—while I know nearly nothing about it.

As it turns out, the US Government has a great site on the "Great Pandemic", put together by the Office of the Public Health Service Historian, itself a really neat service I just discovered.

There are debates about its origins, but it struck at the end of WW1, and killed far more people than that war. Globally, the Public Health Service Historian reports, 20 million people died; in the United States alone, about 675,000 people in a population of 105 million would die from the disease. 15 Million people died in World War 1.

There is a family story for me in the Spanish Flu: My wife’s grandmother, a farm girl in rural North Dakota at the time, lost both parents to the pandemic. In a scene reminiscent of today’s African AIDS stories, my wife’s grandmother and her sisters were brought in by an adolescent girl and cared for.

[Photo Credit: Office of the Public Health Service Historian]

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