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To: elmatador who wrote (47125)	3/7/2004 7:16:32 PM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Hello elmatador, You are indeed correct. In most flu pandemics, it is the very young and the very old that succumb. The Spanish Flu was extremely different in that it was the young, otherwise healthy adults that died in overwhelming numbers. To this day, medical science does not know why this particular strain of flu was so virulent for young adults, and left other age groups relatively unscathed. To be sure, deaths were recorded in all age groups, and both genders. But for some unknown reason, young adult males were most susceptible to this particular strain, and died in huge numbers around the world. KJC