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<blockquote data-quote="Homicidal_Squirrel" data-source="post: 6206458" data-attributes="member: 6750031"><p>On The Talking Dead show they had the guy that does their zombie especial effects. He said the new virus was based on a virus that had gone around in 1918 or so. He said it was a virus that didn't kill the elderly nor the real young, but instead it killed off those in the middle; the ones you would expect to survive because the tend to be the healthiest and have stronger immune symptoms. It sounds a lot like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic" target="_blank">Spanish Flu</a>. Even the symptoms seem to fit pretty well.</p><p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left">Edit: Well that went all derp. For some reason I couldn't sblock the symptoms.</p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left">in any case, here they are:</p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: inherit"><strong>The Symptoms of the Spanish Flu</strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: inherit">The victims of the 1918 Spanish flu suffered greatly. Within hours of feeling the first symptoms of extreme fatigue, fever, and headache, victims would start turning blue. Sometimes the blue color became so pronounced that it was difficult to determine a patient's original skin color. The patients would cough with such force that some even tore their abdominal muscles. Foamy blood exited from their mouths and noses. A few bled from their ears. Some vomited; others became incontinent.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: inherit">The Spanish flu struck so suddenly and severely that many of its victims died within hours of coming down with their first symptom. Some died a day or two after realizing they were sick.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: inherit">Not surprisingly, the severity of the Spanish flu was alarming. People around the world worried about getting it. Some cities ordered everyone to wear masks. Spitting and coughing in public was prohibited. Schools and theaters were closed.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: inherit">People also tried their own homemade prevention remedies, such as eating raw onions, keeping a potato in their pocket, or wearing a bag of camphor around their neck. None of these things stemmed the onslaught of the Spanish flu's deadly second wave.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Homicidal_Squirrel, post: 6206458, member: 6750031"] On The Talking Dead show they had the guy that does their zombie especial effects. He said the new virus was based on a virus that had gone around in 1918 or so. He said it was a virus that didn't kill the elderly nor the real young, but instead it killed off those in the middle; the ones you would expect to survive because the tend to be the healthiest and have stronger immune symptoms. It sounds a lot like the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic"]Spanish Flu[/URL]. Even the symptoms seem to fit pretty well. [LEFT] Edit: Well that went all derp. For some reason I couldn't sblock the symptoms. in any case, here they are: [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana][FONT=inherit][B]The Symptoms of the Spanish Flu[/B][/FONT] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana][FONT=inherit]The victims of the 1918 Spanish flu suffered greatly. Within hours of feeling the first symptoms of extreme fatigue, fever, and headache, victims would start turning blue. Sometimes the blue color became so pronounced that it was difficult to determine a patient's original skin color. The patients would cough with such force that some even tore their abdominal muscles. Foamy blood exited from their mouths and noses. A few bled from their ears. Some vomited; others became incontinent.[/FONT] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana][FONT=inherit]The Spanish flu struck so suddenly and severely that many of its victims died within hours of coming down with their first symptom. Some died a day or two after realizing they were sick.[/FONT] [FONT=inherit]Not surprisingly, the severity of the Spanish flu was alarming. People around the world worried about getting it. Some cities ordered everyone to wear masks. Spitting and coughing in public was prohibited. Schools and theaters were closed.[/FONT] [FONT=inherit]People also tried their own homemade prevention remedies, such as eating raw onions, keeping a potato in their pocket, or wearing a bag of camphor around their neck. None of these things stemmed the onslaught of the Spanish flu's deadly second wave.[/FONT] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
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