I am down with a racking cough and congestion, but I am reminded that it could be so much worse. At least it's not the flu pandemic of 1918!
The 1918 flu pandemic, which lasted from January, 1918 to December of 1920, infected 500 million people, and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million (three to five percent of the world's population), making it the deadliest outbreak in human history.
The influenza struck in three successive waves. The first wave, in the spring and summer of 1918, was relatively mild, with the deadliest wave hitting in the fall of that year as soldiers on the front lines of Word War I came down with the flu and spread it into packed trains and infirmaries. A third wave and final wave came in the spring of 1919.
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Looking at the poster, it's kind of crazy that still we have to be reminded to follow a few simple countermeasures like covering the mouth. ... I don't see anyone using a handkerchief, ever.
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