WORLD WAR...AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION

A deadly flu epidemic circulated worldwide during the first World War. This particular strain of flu, was caused by a swine virus. The flu lasted a week or two, before the victim passed away. A siege of flu, left the person so weak, that pneumonia usually set in. Pneumonia was the real killer, not the flu as most people thought. The odds of surviving this flu were against you, once you got it.