The Realities of a Flu Epidemic

Among many of the things that we are supposed to fear, and therefore dedicate large sums of taxpayer money towards, is a flu epidemic. It turns out that during the 1918 pandemic, most people died from pneumonia infections, not the flu virus itself. Pneumonia, a bacteria, is now treated with antibiotics that were not yet discovered in 1918.

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2:19 pm on August 19, 2008