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To: stayathomemom
My mom was a baby at the time and I believe that my grandfather got sick and was unable to preach for a couple of Sundays.

My father was born in 15. He had 9 siblings. My mother was born in 17. She had 8 siblings. Each family lost 1 or 2 kids in childhood. I wonder if that flu took any of them.

12 posted on 10/08/2012 8:00:45 PM PDT by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: neverdem

Perhaps, although as I recall, the hardest hit demographic were young adults with strong immune systems. I just checked the wiki article about it: “Modern analysis has shown the virus to be particularly deadly because it triggers a cytokine storm, which ravages the stronger immune system of young adults.”


13 posted on 10/08/2012 8:42:00 PM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of kittens modifying your posts.)
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