22nd October
2014
In the fall of 1918, San Diego children skipped rope to a popular rhyme:
I had a little bird
Its name was Enza
I opened the window
And in-flew-enza
In the last weeks of World War I and in the months that followed, an influenza outbreak swept the world, infecting a billion people and killing as many as 50 million. It was one of the deadliest pandemics in history. In San Diego the scourge reached epidemic proportions . . .
Read the story of The Spanish Flu.