It starts with body aches, chills, exhaustion, headache and fever. Then come congestion, sore throat and cough. It is miserable. It is the flu.
It is spreading across the country like a shadow.
I had just read several excellent books about the great flu pandemic of 1918, which started a century ago this month.
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