October 2, 1918

Spanish Flu

It killed more Americans than all of our twentieth century wars combined. When 138 soldiers at Camp Gordon in Atlanta were hit with it this day in 1918, the Spanish Flu epidemic had spread across Georgia. The flu hit just as World War I ended. That war took ten million lives over four years. The […]

Did you know?

More than half of those killed by the flu were young adults between 20 and 40 years old.