{"id":1051,"date":"2014-10-22T17:56:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T00:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2014-10-23T09:18:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T16:18:23","slug":"the-spanish-flu-in-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=1051","title":{"rendered":"The Spanish Flu in San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A postman wearing protective gauze. National Archives.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the fall of 1918, San Diego children skipped rope to a popular rhyme:<\/p>\n

I had a little bird<\/em><\/p>\n

Its name was Enza <\/em><\/p>\n

I opened the window<\/em><\/p>\n

And in-flew-enza<\/em><\/p>\n

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 . . .<\/p>\n

Read the story of The Spanish Flu<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n