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Peggy Pearl: The Last Big Pandemic


I recently read a good book, The Great Rescue, which tells the story of the German luxury ocean liner, SS Vaterland, which was detained in New York Harbor when WWI broke out in 1914. There she remained until the United States entered the war in 1917; seized by the U. S. Navy, she was renamed the USS Leviathan and converted into an armed troop carrier to transport thousands of soldiers to France. In the chapter called The Eve of the Flu Voyage, the author recounted that while the soldiers were boarding, some were so sick they couldn’t even make it up the gangways. This included troops from Vermont, which made me begin to wonder why I had never really heard much about this event in history. I don’t remember it in my early history classes; I could only find a paragraph about the sickness in the American Heritage book about WWI. Turns out that there was not much written at the time – a conundrum considering it killed over half a million people just in the United States. ....

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