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When was the flu epidemic in the US The one that killed people?
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The US flu epidemic occurred in the WWI time period (1918). Military personnel began dying overseas; those that made it home infected their loved ones and others they came in contact with. It supposedly ended in California because it had run out of victims and ground to cover. It was fatal, primarily in the very young and the very old; those of more middle age became extremely ill for a period of time but recovered.
500,000 Americans died from the virus during the epidemic.
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