In the United States, influenza death rates were so high that the average life span fell by twelve years, from fifty-one in 1917 to thirty-nine in 1918. If you were a “doughboy” – slang for an American soldier – you had a better chance of dying in bed from flu or flu-related complications than from enemy action.
-Albert Marrin
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