North of London | SuperBoll - 10/11/2021 16:57
That’s pretty funny. I can’t diagnose ya!
I did look up when the flu started. It was my grandad’s birth year, 1918. He lost some siblings that were very young. Never asked him what happened, but maybe related.
The first flu, and this is just what I saw on Wikipedia, had 500 million cases and an estimated 25-50 million deaths. That’s 5-10% that died. Crazy to think about.
The 1918 flu was not the first flu epidemic.
Flu has been with mankind for a long time and I think there was a pandemic shortly after Europeans started visiting North America.
Pandemics happen more often and more easily the more humans travel around the globe.
BTW the 1918 flu was more deadly to young adults than older people and was an H1N1 virus |