Untimely reading

[ladyofastolat]

A few weeks ago, I read a very interesting book about the 1918 flu pandemic. At about the same time, I also read one about the Black Death, and did quite a lot of online reading about cholera epidemics, typhus on battlefields, and malaria in Britain.

I'm kind of wishing I hadn't done so now.

Comments

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

I understand that it is not usually the 'flu' itself that kills you but the secondary (and tertiary) infections, and those are often bacterial. So penicillin should be a significant help.