# 1918 Flu Pandemic: 100 Years Ago

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 17, 2018, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1918-flu-pandemic-100-years-ago/806793 "2018-01-17T02:26:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1918-flu-pandemic-100-years-ago/806793/21 "2018-01-18T01:28:51Z")

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> [@kenobi\_65](#):
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> When I was out in the car running errands this evening, I caught part of a documentary on the BBC World Service about the pandemic.
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> In one segment, the presenter said, “There are still a few living people who have memories of the pandemic. [Name that I can’t remember], of London, is an epidemiologist. At the age of 105, he’s still working.” They then aired a clip of an interview with the doctor.
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> Daaaaaaamn.

Sounds interesting! It’s 53 minutes long, so I’ll listen to it later.

> **[BBC World Service - The Documentary, Pandemic: The Story of the 1918 Flu](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswdhh)**
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> How the flu pandemic of 100 years ago affected every corner of the world

My grandfather had a bizarre whole-body tremor most of his adult life that did not respond to medications nor did it progress, and apparently this was a common after-effect of the 1918 flu. He would have been about 13 years old at the time.

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