To those of you who aren't crossover's on the Howard county list, I wanted to forward this information from Lorene. Kathy Bowlin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorene Paschal" <lypaschal@earthlink.net> To: <MOHOWARD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 3:53 PM Subject: [MOHOWARD-L] Flu epidemic > Those of you interested in learning more about the flu epidemic of 1918 > should visit the following website: > http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza/ > > There are a number of options available; I found the program > transcription very interesting. (It aired a couple of years ago.) There > is also a section on later day efforts to isolate the virus which caused > the epidemic. This effort was undertaken not only out of curiosity but > from the concern that it could reappear. > The numbers of deaths due to it are staggering: over 30 million > world-wide and 550,000 in 1918 in the U.S. It is the greatest tragedy to > hit the U.S. and yet is virtually unknown. As Kathy said, it is sobering > to read about it. > Lorene > >