While the news media continues to try to scare us shitless about the H1N1 Influenza virus, the present outbreak has nothing on what happened in 1918.
This is a story of how and why my grandfather, grandmother, and my aunt and uncle survived the influenza pandemic of 1918 - without Purell - and due entirely to the intercession of Deadwood, South Dakota's most notorious brothel owner: "Poker Alice".
Cool, how interesting!
sarahstanley 1 year ago
The plague kept returning every 4 - 10 years afterward. By 1420 the population of Europe was only about 1/3 what it had been 100 years before.
LeeW274 1 year ago
Killed more people than the 'hundred years' of the Black Death? Which outbreaks are you referring to as there were many, 1347-50 being the most deadly... and it resulted in millions of deaths.
mattyvann2008 1 year ago