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Edited on Fri Dec-10-04 10:21 PM by Lydia Leftcoast
when the 1918 flu struck. She and my grandfather survived (he was a schoolteacher), but two young teachers, just out of college, died. An entire family of five also died, but they lived on an isolated farm, and it was a couple of weeks before anyone realized that they hadn't been seen for a while.
More U.S. military personnel died of the flu than in battle in World War I. They caught it in crowded boot camps or on troop ships.
If any near future flu epidemic were as virulent as the 1918 one, the people I would worry about would be college students in dorms, living in close quarters, not getting enough sleep, and eating low-quality food.
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