Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 21, 2015

Only three more years until the epidemic’s centennial.

Sounds like an angry old man might be the lambs father!

But can the warbler carry a coconut?

What countries where affected by the epidemic?

Not only did the soldiers bring the flu with them, but many of them also died from the flu after surviving the horrors of WWI.

The flu epidemic killed more than all the wars the USA has been involved in, plus all black plague deaths – possibly up to 100 million in all.

This is in Russia, so it may be close enough to Chernobyl to be caused by radiation.If so it IS a portent of bad things to come. Fukushima was at least 10 to 50 times more toxic and will cause mutations well beyond Japan. I feel so sorry for anyone who lives there and in Korea, China, Hongkong annd it’s even killing off fish here on the west coast.Indeed a Bad Portent.

New research shows that many who died during the 1918 pandemic actually died of aspirin poisoning, not the flu:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/health/13aspirin.html?_r=0

Not angry, just terribly opinionated. :)