The Third Wave -The spanish flu was winding down in America, or so it seemed. On November 21 1918 San Franciscans were allowed 2 go w/out masks- 5000 cases appeared there after.
By April 1919 it was gone 4 good.H1N1 finally had run out of hosts.
*Entire villiages were wiped out in Africa, Asia, and Central America.
*Millions of children were orphaned.
*many of those who did survive were left with brain damage. Dr. Oliver Sachs wrote "Awakenings" a book about millions who devepoped ENCEPHALITIS LETHARGICA - a devastating condition in which victims were trapped in a twighlight world of permenant sleep.
*With a terrible sad poingnancy, the spanish flu pandemic all but erased from the history books until quite recently...
When H5N1 appeared on the scene in 1996...
