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Originally Posted by Desmond Shang  For anyone who has any idea of what happened in 1918, this flu should scare the crap out of you. |
The reason the 1918 flu was so bad, was because of a variety of reasons, including the fact that millions of men were stuck together in war trenches sitting in their own feces among rotting corpses.
Also remember that general hygiene and medicine in that era weren't exactly on par with today's standards. There were no vaccine or antibiotics and hardly any knowledge of viruses and how they worked.