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Offline Strayboy74

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The flu of 1918
« on: January 18, 2007, 01:55:42 am »
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16670768/wid/11915773?GT1=8921

"The virus was reconstructed from tissues of victims from 1918. Besides the Public Health Agency of Canada’s lab in Winnipeg, it exists only at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta."


Sometimes I just wish we would leave this shit alone! :)

I'm gonna sanitize my hands a lot more. :)

-joseph

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Offline bear60

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Re: The flu of 1918
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2007, 10:12:43 am »
Interesting.
Does anyone else have stories in thier families about this epidemic? My Grandfather..(fathers father) died during this epidemic and my Mom , who was a little girl at the time,  is said to have had it but recovered.
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Offline ACinKC

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Re: The flu of 1918
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2007, 10:19:01 am »
The thing that kinda pissed me off about this is that they said it was the last pandemic we've seen of this magnitude.  UMMMM HELLO FUCKERS!  25 MILLION isnt a bad number!
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Offline Christine

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Re: The flu of 1918
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2007, 02:04:34 pm »
Hi Bear,
My paternal great-grandparents died, along with 7 of their children. Five children lived, and the oldest child raised the remaining kids.

Christine
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5/30/07 t-cells 9; vl 275,000

Offline bear60

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Re: The flu of 1918
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2007, 02:33:51 pm »
Pretty amazing Christine.  We have it pretty good now, all things considered.
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Offline Eldon

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Re: The flu of 1918
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2007, 09:11:14 pm »
There can be something valuable that is gained from this particular situation.


"What Can I do today to make a better Tommorrow?"
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Offline emeraldize

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Re: The flu of 1918
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2007, 02:33:24 am »
Hi Bear

My grandfather died of the flu during the epidemic, ironically, while on a construction crew building a hospital to care for the victims. As a result, my grandmother could not continue to care for my father and at sixteen months he was adopted by an aunt and uncle. An incredible ripple effect resulted.

Em
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Offline Christine

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Re: The flu of 1918
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2007, 11:53:52 am »
There is a picture of all them standing from tallest to shortest taken before the flu hit. It is sort of sad, and scary to realize how quickly things can change.

All of this happened in Italy. The oldest daughter was engaged to a man who had immigrated to the US, and when the flu hit, and everyone died, she took the kids and came to the US to live.

Ripple effect...

Christine
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Offline aupointillimite

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Re: The flu of 1918
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2007, 08:35:27 pm »
Quote from: bear60 on January 18, 2007, 10:12:43 am
Interesting.
Does anyone else have stories in thier families about this epidemic? My Grandfather..(fathers father) died during this epidemic and my Mom , who was a little girl at the time,  is said to have had it but recovered.

I do.

My great-grandmother's first husband and one of her daughters died in the flu epidemic in 1918.

She then married my great-grandfather.

If not for that flu epidemic... I wouldn't be here.
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Offline loshan

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Re: The flu of 1918
« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2007, 09:33:00 pm »
My great Grandfather on mom's side died in it.....Grandmother on Dad's side was 9 at the time and told me she remembered flat rail cars stacked with frozen bodies coming through their small Arkansas town "going back east for buriel" during January.
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Offline loshan

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Re: The flu of 1918
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2007, 09:34:27 pm »
burial......(typing in semi darkness) ;D
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