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April 4th, 2013, 06:17 PM | #1181 | |
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The pandemic was so severe it depressed the average life expectancy figure in the US by ten years! Th whole World suffered from this one and current estimates put the death toll at 50 million! |
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April 4th, 2013, 08:44 PM | #1182 |
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They should have called it the "French" Flu then,should'nt they?This flu went WW & killed millions.We are the offsping of survivors from this malady.If it re-occurs we may have a gene to fight it.Just like the Black plague,we of European herritage are ancestors of survivors of this disaster.
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The influenza epidemic (or should that be pandemic?) ravaged the entire world as rupert pointed out. You can go to cemetaries throughout the US and Canada (and other parts of the world, I'm sure) and find quite a few grave markers with a death date of 1919.
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From what I've read, I got the impression that the first outbreak was at an army camp in Kansas.
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Even this is cause of long debate, much speculation and lots of theory. Investigative work by a British team led by virologist John Oxford of St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Royal London Hospital, almost certainly identified a major troop staging and hospital camp in Étaples, France as the centre of the 1918 flu pandemic. A significant precursor virus was harboured in birds, and mutated to pigs that were kept near the front. Earlier theories of the epidemic's origin have varied. Some theorized the flu originated in the Far East.
Dr. C. Hannoun, leading expert of the 1918 flu for the Institut Pasteur, asserted the former virus was likely to have come from China, mutated in the United States near Boston, and spread to Brest, Brittany-France, Europe's battlefields, Europe, and the world using Allied soldiers and sailors as main spreaders. Hannoun considered several other theories of origin, such as Spain, Kansas, and Brest, as being possible, but not likely. Historian Alfred W. Crosby speculated the flu originated in Kansas. Popular writer John Barry echoed Crosby in describing Haskell County, Kansas as the likely point of origin. Political scientist Andrew Price-Smith published data from the Austrian archives suggesting the influenza had earlier origins, beginning in Austria in the spring of 1917. |
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On January 28, 1918, Cpl. Roberto Sarfatti, the 17-year old son of Margherita Sarfatti, Benito Mussolini’s mistress, was killed in action serving with the Alpini on the Asiago Front, in the process becoming the youngest Italian soldier ever to win the Medaglia d’oro for bravery.
A rider to the Selective Draft Act of 1917 imposed severe penalties for anyone selling alcoholic beverages to a man in uniform, and prescribed minimum distances that saloons and brothels had to maintain from military bases. |
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Somehow Ennath I can't see the troops obeying the rules about saloons and brothels.
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During my time in the forces there were rules about drinking in pubs and clubs in uniform, it wasnt allowed. There werent any rules about brothels though!
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