The Influenza Pandemic

When the virus essentially travelled from the united states to europe, spread in the theatre of world war one, its primary victims were young men in their twenties and thirties. I'm wondering if this might be partly connected to the chronology that you unfold ed a few moments ago. That's a really interesting theory, not being an epidemiologist. But certainly the war played a fundamental role in furthering the virus, in facilitating its mutation. The opportunity provided by all of those soldiers, again, really was the groundwork laid out there for the virus. So some of the best accounts of the outbreak come to us not from doctors and scientists, but from writers.