The Passing of a Pandemic: The Last Gasp of a Global Plague
It was over a hundred years ago. What was then deemed as perhaps the most widespread pestilence the world had ever witnessed was finally coming to an end. The Spanish flu, whose proliferation was certainly assisted by theater-wide troop movements during World War One, had wreaked havoc across the planet. It was particularly virulent and deadly, killing tens of millions of people in multiple countries. The scourge began in 1918—the last year of the war—and was effectively over by the…