Swine flu continues to taper off in most places but health officials are preparing for a possible larger outbreak in the fall.

In 1918 the pandemic circled the globe killing millions.  Whole cities were shutdown in the U.S.  In some large U.S. cities they gave up trying to bury bodies in coffins – resorting instead to mass graves dug by steam shovel.

Here is a summary of how things were in 1918 from Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/

Flu is virus borne and so curing it is not as simple as giving a shot.  The vaccines allow the body to prepare it’s own defense by giving us a small taste of it.

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