![]() As a result, people did not take the outbreak seriously and no one followed expert medical advice, thinking that patients will get over it in a few days. In the UK, you could even receive a death sentence. Why was it not widely reported, you ask? Journalists in the US risked a 20-year jail sentence for publishing anything that criticized the government. The Spanish Flu was especially deadly among people in their 20s yet news reports insisted that everything was fine. Experts still do not know where it came from, how to cure it, or whether it would return. The Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 killed about 50 million people. It is excellent for those who want to learn about how plagues spread, how they were dealt with, and the heroes who fought them but perhaps not so interested in the nitty gritty of medical science. ![]() Chapter by chapter, it discusses everything from the Black Death to leprosy to typhoid fever. Get Well Soon by Jennifer Wright is a great intro to the various diseases that plagued the Earth. “ People more than anything want to go about life like normal, even during a plague.” - Jennifer Wright. ![]()
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