I viewed this site with my grandmother. She was living in Blanchard, Iowa at the time and she said the flu didn't arrive to their area until the fall of 1918. She said the town quarantined itself to try to keep the flu out, but families visiting relatives in high incident areas and returning home brought it in. She said she remembers a few deaths and only one family of six being killed by the virus. She also remembers their house always smelling like "medicine"...her mother cleaned the house once a day no matter what. And like the program said, the virus just went away. We are experiencing this now. With all the vaccines and the diseases mutating, I believe there will come a time when with all of our technology we will be defenseless against the diseases we thought we had conquered. The diseases don't go away...they wait until the time is right and then they strike. I see it everyday I work at the local hospital...it started 10 years ago...more and more "germs" are resistant to medications/antibiotics and vaccines. I see people who come in with the flu and they have been vaccinated and they still die or come close to death. We have had 4 meningitis deaths in our area and all under the age of 20. I see registered nurses asked physicians for prescriptions for antibiotics for simple headcolds with no fever and no drainage from their lungs and/or nose and people wonder why the antibiotics we have on the market don't work. Patients come in with something as simple as an urinary tract infection only to discover the "germ" they have is not responding to Ampicillin, a form of Penicillin. There are numerous illnesses which are not responding to medications such as Ampicillin, Vancomycin (the antibiotic which should cure everything), and many medications in the Cephalosporin family. Just this last winter we had a Strep throat epidemic go through the hospital and I fought off it off without antibiotics. Another worker was out for 2 weeks with the same thing and had to take two different antiobiotics to fight it. Our bodies are becoming weak from medication abuses, the environment which we have created and abused, and our own heredity. It is a frightening world we live in and I hope I don't see my 92nd birthday like my grandmother. She has seen two World Wars, flu, cholera, and typhoid epidemics, and the Depression and said she would never turn the clock back to be young again. My grandmother says I should get off my soap box....Thank you Lorene for the link to that site, from my grandmother and I...it lead to some wonderful discussion and stories. I have forwarded the link to some friends who I know will find it interesting. It is more than sobering...it makes me want to cry...I hope it makes people think for even a second in what a fragile and unpredictable world we live in. Nuf said and thanks for letting me vent!!! Teri