1918 - Worldwide [high point year] Influenza: more people were hospitalized > > in WWI > > from this epidemic than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps, > > with > > 80% death rate in some camps. > > One of my ancestors was lost during this flu epidemic in Dallas County, TX just one week before he was supposed to go into the Army. Brenda CENSUS ONLINE & OTHER DIGGINS http://www.imagin.net/~tracers/census1.htm As seen at WW Top 100 Genealogy Sites http://www.worldwide-top100.net/tops5/rankem.cgi?action=in&id=tracer