August 06, 1976 (vol. 86, iss. 62) • Page Image 5
…Friday, August 6, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five 1918: The year swine flu struck By The Associated Press Hardly a city, town, village or hamlet was spared when a dead- ly influenza swept across the nation nearly 60 years ago, shat- tering millions of lives. It was the pandemic, or world- wide epidemic, of 1918-19. More than 2 million people died, 500,- 000 in the United States alone. THE VIRULENT disease - swine flu-wiped out lives with...…