I Survived

Pandemic Influenza Storybook

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The staggering statistics associated with pandemics sometime makes it difficult to remember that each number represents a single, human life. In this section, several survivors share their intimate recollections of either their own illness or that of a loved one. All these storytellers are 90-plus years of age and they have carried with them for a lifetime their memories of the 1918 flu pandemic.