A couple of weeks ago, I republished the Center for Disease Control's historic account of the great 1918 Worldwide flu pandemic (click here to read it). Today, I'm sharing a video interview conducted with one of the Pandemic's survivors who lived in a small town in Alabama. They had no hospitals, and one country doctor and were surrounded by casualties. It's sobering.
In this 2008 interview, Mrs. Boone, 100 year-old resident of Mobile, tells how her family was the only family in a small rural Alabama area that did not contract the flu during the 1918 flu outbreak. Mrs. Boone's family all became responders in her community. Her parents become instant nurses and she delivered soup to the door of ill families.
Ann Brantley, R.N., of the Alabama Department of Public Health conducted the interview on January 28, 2008, and it was recorded by the Video Communications Division of the ADPH.
Source: Alabama Department of Archives & History
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