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1918 Spanish Flu (Flu After WW1, Mast Head: The Thomas Times, Head Line:…
1918 Spanish Flu
Flu After WW1
Mast Head: The Thomas Times
Head Line: Flu sweeps through Marston
Byline: Thomas Irvine, Current event reporter
Over 25 million infected
Soldiers carried disease to europe
Lots of doctors got the disease too
There were lots of make-shift hospitals
Infection peaked 22 November 1918
400 dead in Marston
Maori suffered much higher death rate
First outbreak in Kansas USA
No antibiotics
Started from bird to pig to human
Your immune system killed you because it did not know how to deal with it
Infected quarter of the worlds population
Killed 10 to 20 percent of people that caught it
spread because of bad hygine
15 million died