PANDEMICS HAPPEN - IT'S A NATURAL CYCLE OF LIFE

The 1918 pandemic, called the Spanish Flu, killed up 100 million people world wide(so the "ESTIMATE" goes). At the time our world populace was 1.6 billion people. So if the #'s are right , then 1/16th of our populace perished in the year 1918. The case fatality rate(CFR) was 2.5%. People never knew the flu could be so deadly. But this was no ordinary seasonal flu - this was Pandemic Flu- this was a mutated bird flu (unbeknow st 2 the dr.'s and scientists at the time as a killer virus, it wasn't until the invention of the electroscope some 20 yrs later that they were "ABLE" 2 see the culprit- H1N1).

There is still speculation as 2 where the virus hailed from. The first case reported was in Haskill County, Kansas USA- MARCH 1918 in camp Tuston, an encampment that was part of the sprawling Fort Riley.This is how it went from the research I did.

*the cook became ill early on March 11, 1918.

*by noon over 100 soliders were sick as well.

*a week later 500 were sick.

*American "doughboys" went overseas and coughed on the French, who coughed on the Belgians,the English, and the Germans.

*It reached Bombay, then Shanghai by end of May.

*Hundreds dying in the UK by June.

*It was dubbed "The 3 Day Flu".

*It was thought as cases dwindled that the worst was over- It wasn't...

It started with a cough, or perhaps a sore throat, maybe a runny nose that needed blowing.It often ended a day or 2 later, sometimes within hours- patients literally drowning in their own blood, their bodies suffocated into a blue hue so pronounced that exhausted nurses placed mourge ID tags on their toes before they had drawn their last breath.

The Pandemic was so horrible that it effectively reduced life expectancy in America by 13 years.This particular virus known as H1N1, had an attack rate of 33-50%, - at it's height half the world was infected.

The year 1918, the King Alphonse III of Spain, had the flu.SPAIN WAS NOT AT WAR. No censors monitoring it's news or papers so reporters kept track of their King's condition, especially because millions of Spaniards were dropping like flies. Just how bad this flu truly was, would NOT be reported by Spain's neighbors, where strict censors deleted anything that could affect the moral of their soldiers who were mired in their fighting. All these reports that came out of Spain - gave the flu it's name, The Spanish Flu- funny the Spaniards called it The French Flu.

This brings us 2 the OTHER theory of how this flu virus originated.

Virologist - John Oxford is convinced that a precursor was somehow spawned in an England Warcamp in Etaples, France 1918. Here it was called purulent bronchitis and it killed quickly with a distinct feature- as they approached death, those infected turned a deep blue, called Helitrope Cyanosis- their bodies desperate 2 breath, literally invade the blood vessels in the face for oxygen.