[imardmd1]

This flu hit every settled nation very hard, not just the armed forces. My grandmother died of it in February of 1919, leaving my grandfather with five children, the two youngest whom he was not able to take care of, that wound up as foster children in local homes.

If this epidemic had serious effect, it was to reinforce the not-too-distant impact of Pasteur's findings on the germ theory of disease, on greater emphasis for indoor plumbing, running water, and personal hygiene in heath education.

We are the beneficiaries of the social outcomes of defense against such infections.

Until AIDS, that is, which is bound to cause great damage to our armed forces now that perversion in barracks life has become more than acceptable, rather than giving its practitioners a BCD.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

****This flu hit every settled nation very hard, ***

Worse. It also devastated the Inuit of the Arctic and the native tribes in the Amazon rain forest.

It appears everyone took a hit.