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History Says the 1918 Flu Killed the Young and Healthy. These Bones Say Otherwise | WIRED (www.wired.com)

You don't say, we were lied to again?

From the post: "IN THE LAST hard days of World War I, just two weeks before world powers agreed to an armistice, a doctor wrote a letter to a friend. The doctor was stationed at the US Army’s Camp Devens west of Boston, a base packed with 45,000 soldiers preparing to ship out for the battlefields of France. A fast-moving, fatal pneumonia had infiltrated the base, and the ward he supervised was packed full of desperately sick men."

You don't say, we were lied to again? Archive: https://archive.today/wDUF8 From the post: "IN THE LAST hard days of World War I, just two weeks before world powers agreed to an armistice, a doctor wrote a letter to a friend. The doctor was stationed at the US Army’s Camp Devens west of Boston, a base packed with 45,000 soldiers preparing to ship out for the battlefields of France. A fast-moving, fatal pneumonia had infiltrated the base, and the ward he supervised was packed full of desperately sick men."

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Much like the famous picture of the iron lungs in NYC - that was all of them in the city of a few million.

The story stills tries to dance around by stating that the disease killed everyone. Really, however, it just confirms what we already know - that illnesses can and do affect the compromised more than the healthy. Of course, it is Wired, so they have to tow the line or get cancelled.

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