[OldNavyVet]

One of my relatives was an Army Nurse in 1914, just out of college and stationed at an Army base in Texas. Her comment on the Spanish Flu epidemic was that all they could do was try to keep victims temeratures down — and that most patients quickly died.

[antivenom]

It was a fascinating part of American Military history...the impact of the Spanish flu on boot camps...and how inept the US governemnt was in containing it, EVEN after the doctors were begging Wilson to quarantine the sick military personnel.

I just finished the book "The Great Influenza" by John Barry...I highly recommend it, great history on the pandemic.