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A 1918 letter shows how Virginia suffered and survived another deadly flu
AdvertisementBy The Virginian-PilotMay 17, 2020 at 1:18 pmEverything in Norfolk was so dull, Annie Donahoe wrote. The virus had closed almost everything.Schools and businesses were shut, she told her brother, Arthur. Movie theaters were shuttered. The teenager wasn’t even working but hoped her shop would open the next week.AdvertisementThe 16-year-old was listing life in quarantine in 1918.Sound familiar?AdvertisementBobby Clifton of Virginia Beach recently found the three-page letter his mother had written during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...…AdvertisementBy The Virginian-PilotMay 17, 2020 at 1:18 pmEverything in Norfolk was so dull, Annie Donahoe wrote. The virus had closed almost everything.Schools and businesses were shut, she told her brother, Arthur. Movie theaters were shuttered. The teenager wasn’t even working but hoped her shop would open the next week.AdvertisementThe 16-year-old was listing life in quarantine in 1918.Sound familiar?AdvertisementBobby Clifton of Virginia Beach recently found the three-page letter his mother had written during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...WW…
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