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Originally Posted by grog18b
Saw a good documentary on the Spanish Flu of 1918... Healthy dudes in their 20s were diagnosed at 10am and dead by 4pm... after the first symptoms appeared.
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That's not bad. In the book, "The Great Influenza" by John Barry, he has anecdotes of people showing no signs of being sick dropping dead in the street.
Flu seems to kick old folks and the little ones in the ass. Spanish flu seemed to hit the younger folks. One theory is that they were malnourished and not as healthy due to the war going on in Europe. Another is that the old weren't hit so hard because they may have had some immunity due to the Russian flu of 1889-90.