Great article on the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic

Question

1918 was a year of horrors in the medical community, . . . the Spanish flu.  Here is a very good article about this pandemic and the cost to the world.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journal-plague-year-180965222/  

Answer 1

I have completed several profiles of ancestors who died during this world-wide epidemic. Most were young men and women in their teens. Horrific and very sad.

Answer 2

Thanks for posting that article, Kitty. We hd a family member who died in that epidemic, so I read it with interest.