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

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 9 years ago

    Only three more years until the epidemic’s centennial.

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    Space_cat  over 9 years ago

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

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    Bill The Nuke  over 9 years ago

    But can the warbler carry a coconut?

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    sarazan7  over 9 years ago

    What countries where affected by the epidemic?

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    CeeJay  over 9 years ago

    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.

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    Paul Swearingen  over 9 years ago

    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.

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    pam Miner  over 9 years ago

    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.

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    IQTech61  over 9 years ago

    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

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    Angry Indeed Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Not angry, just terribly opinionated. :)

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