Hi, Group I can tell of one effect of the flu epidemic as it affected my late father. He was barely too young to be drafted for WWI service, but caught the flu in Kansas. He said several times that his hair turned white and then all fell out. He survived and his hair came back. Vic On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Nadine Hensley wrote: > Right the soldiers brought it back with them. > The death toll world wide was high. > I wonder just the effect was on all those people. > > nadine > On Wed, 27 Aug 1997 10:47:02 -0500, you wrote: > > >I, too, lost relatives in 1917-8 Flu epidemic in NC. My grandmother and my > >uncle (age 19) died. It was a severe strain and they had very little > >medication. I may be wrong, but I believe that this strain was brought to > >the US by the returning GI's from WWI. > >> > >Good Searching - Good Finding - Good Luck! > >David Huffines > >Searching Hofheintz/Huffines/Huffhines/Hoffein/et.al. > >and Williamson, Wakefield, Underwood, Paisley, Sikes, Lipscomb > > >