With the same terrible threat. And within a matter of months, as many as 50 million would be dead. In the United States, the death toll reached 675,000, five times the number of u. S. Soldiers killed in world war i. What was that deadly threat . [ bells tolling ] there were many, many people who died. We had just come a few years before from mexico where we were living on account of the mexican revolution. I was about 10 years old. I was the oldest, and my Four Brothers and sisters of the family, only my dad and my sister did not get it. My two brothers were in one room sick. I was sick in the other bedroom with my mother. My poor dad and sister had to be our attendants and see what they could do for us. Influenza gave you such high fever. Mother told me that i thought her black hair was a cat, and i was afraid of it with a delirium from high fever. People were left very weak with kind of that high fever. And all the schools, the public places, and every place was closed. I guess nearl
The virus extracted from frozen bodies under alaskan permafrost. Released in 2010, this is just under an hour. In 1918 lived in sequoia county mishlgts Family Living in philadelphia. In 1918 we were living in el paso, texas. Born and raised in baltimore. In bustling cities and remote villages and in the United States and around the world, orphaned children cried for their parents in 1918. People of all cultures struggled with the same terrible threat, and within a matter of months as many as 50 million would be dead. And the United States, the death toll reached 675,000, five times the number of u. S. Soldiers killed in world war i. What was that deadly threat . [ bell tolls ] many, many people died. We had just come from a few years before, from mexico where we were living. On kind of the revolution, the mexican revolution. I was about 10 years old. I was the oldest. And my Four Brothers and sisters of the family, only my dad and my sister, my taller sister, did not get it. My two bro
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