We have epidemics occasionally and have had them in the past.”ADADMeanwhile, it was reported that Asian flu had hit U.S. air bases in Britain, hospitalizing 500 airmen. A newspaper humorist quipped: “Fever is the second part of Asian flu. An exasperated Public Health Service put out a news release recommending that older people with chronic diseases like heart trouble should be among the first inoculated. Noted tenor Beniamino Gigli, 67, died two days after showing Asian flu symptoms, passing away so quickly that he was unable to receive last rites from a priest. The Asian flu tapered off in 1958, though there was the expected blip of cases that fall.

Source: Washington Post March 17, 2020 19:52 UTC