Eugene woman who survived Spanish flu pandemic gets COVID-19 vaccine
Register-Guard Born in 1917, Bernice Homan was just a baby during the Spanish flu epidemic, which came a year later. When she caught the flu, she became seriously ill and her mother was told Bernice wouldnt make it through the night. But her mother wasnt ready to let her daughter go. Compelled to save her, Homans mother ran door to door asking people for a pumpkin so she could make some pumpkin seed soup, which she had heard was a cure for the Spanish flu. She fed the soup to her da...
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