Hello, Its good to have the Banat-L online again! Yesterday, 100 yers ago was the first victim of an epidemic registered, that in the end had more deaths than both World Wars together. We know it under the Spanish Flu name. Here is an interesting article shared by Dietger Braun: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/spanische-grippe-wie-eine-epidemie-gesellschaften-veraenderte-15479161.html <http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/spanische-grippe-wie-eine-epidemie-gesellschaften-veraenderte-15479161.html> Greetings from Vancouver Island, Rosina T. Schmidt www.hrastovac.net

Hello Rosina, thanks for sharing! What a story! I am practicing my schlecht Deutsch and I enjoy this "medical thriller". Unfortunately, I do not feel comfortable as I would usually would since I had 3 "flu-like" episodes in this winter season. Pretty eerie to read about the 3 days lasting flu resembling condition that knocked out soldiers in training camps in USA with severe symptoms at the early stages of development of the pathogen ... it is what a lot of people experienced this season in our region. Not that I am implying something but I just feel awkward. :) Really frightening things are that after hundred years, there are still so many unknowns about this pandemic. And the speed of spreading ... unparalleled! This paragraph is like taken out of a script for some disaster movie: "Dann pas­siert et­was, was Seu­chen­me­di­zi­ner bis heu­te nicht er­klä­ren kön­nen. Der Er­re­ger kehrt in ver­än­der­ter Form zu­rück. Nicht erst im dar­auf­fol­gen­den Win­ter, wie wir es von der jähr­li­chen Grip­pe ge­wohnt sind. Son­dern schon im Spät­som­mer des­sel­ben Jah­res. Fast könn­te man mei­nen, er ha­be ir­gend­wo über dem At­lan­tik töd­li­che Kräf­te ge­sam­melt. Gleich an drei Stel­len bricht die Krank­heit par­al­lel aus, dies­mal mit un­ge­heu­rer Wucht. Aus den Ha­fen­städ­ten Free­town in Si­er­ra Leo­ne, dem ame­ri­ka­ni­schen Bos­ton und dem fran­zö­si­schen Brest lau­fen wah­re Hor­ror­mel­dun­gen ein. Bin­nen kur­zem schlägt die zwei­te Wel­le der Spa­ni­schen Grip­pe über­all zu." Unsettling! Speaking of movies, I could find only one that was based on this catastrophic pandemic event - Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen from 1999. God save us from flu ... and some other things ;) Greetings from Serbia On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 4:47 PM, Rosina <rosinatschmidt@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > Its good to have the Banat-L online again! > > Yesterday, 100 yers ago was the first victim of an epidemic registered, > that in the end had more deaths than both World Wars together. We know it > under the Spanish Flu name. > > Here is an interesting article shared by Dietger Braun: > > http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/spanische-grippe-wie- > eine-epidemie-gesellschaften-veraenderte-15479161.html < > http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/spanische-grippe-wie- > eine-epidemie-gesellschaften-veraenderte-15479161.html> > > Greetings from Vancouver Island, > > Rosina T. Schmidt > www.hrastovac.net > > > > > -- *Stasa Cvetkovic* *http://www.synergia.rs/ <http://www.synergia.rs/>* *Tel/fax: +381 21 553 265* *Mobile: +381 62 598 517* *Novi Sad, Serbia* *Visit our webpage <http://www.synergia.rs/>*