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Vivid Memories of Deadly Flu Epidemic, Edmundton Canada Sun
With fears of a deadly flu pandemic simmering in the national consciousness, two local seniors can't help but recall the deadly outbreak of Spanish influenza that claimed 70 million lives worldwide in 1918.
That virus - named for its early high mortality rate in Spain - originated in the Middle East in the spring of 1918 and killed by causing symptoms like bronchial pneumonia, heliotrope cyanosis and septicemic blood poisoning.
"It was a horrible time," recalled Lilian Hosking, 101. She lived in Wales during the outbreak, and says she was 14 when she contracted the virus. "I was in great pain, I couldn't leave my bed. I remember banging my head against the rails of my bedframe because of the pain. "But I got over it."
Hosking said her father later told her it was garlic that saved the nation from decimation.
"He said our neighbours never got it because they put raw garlic up all over their home - bags and wreaths of it everywhere," she said. "He didn't know if the garlic ate the germs, or if it just kept sick people from visiting because it smelled, but he said the neighbours swore by it."
Beatrice Taylor, 92, remembers her mother making masks out of gauze for the family to wear when they ventured outside. "I can remember going out and having to wear this mask. And you avoided being in crowds," said the Edmonton senior. "There were so many of our friends who either got very sick or passed away."...
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