Bird Flu Epidemic

[PornoDoggy]

Just out of curiousity ... question for the non-'merikin folks on the board.

In the U.S., in spite of the devestation it caused, the 1918-1919 flu pandemic was almost non-history for many years. I'm a history buff, and I've heard more about it in the last 10-12 years than I did "officially" all the years before that. My mother's parents both lost several siblings to the epidemic (they were farm people, each from families with 10+ children), so I did a little digging when I was a teenager, and there was suprisingly little info about it, considering the numbers.

Is that also true in Europe? Is it - glossed over? - because of the huge numbers of people who died?

[Rolo]

Originally Posted by PornoDoggy

Is that also true in Europe? Is it - glossed over? - because of the huge numbers of people who died?

Yes, it have been overlooked for years in Europe - WWI took most of the attention in history lessons from that period. I dunno why, but it might be that we as humans do not like to remember events where there are no "winners"...

I think this put the spanish flu into perspective "In 24 weeks, it took more lives than AIDS has in 24 years." .... ofcourse with AIDS being a slow killer it can do more harm long term, but if there had been as many humans in 1918 as we are today, then it could have killed 4 times the amount it did... 80-200 million people world wide in months...