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Lessons from the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic
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Look at the dates: 1890-1918; 1878-1918; 1896-1918; 1917-1918 ... Every person buried on this snowy slope in Barre, Vt, died within days, weeks of each other. "It's pretty humbling," said Brian Zecchinelli.
Nearly 200 died that Fall during that other pandemic, the 1918 so-called Spanish Flu.
Zecchinelli and his wife, Karen, own the nearby Wayside Restaurant now. It's become a Vermont institution. "Effie Ballou opened the Wayside in July of 1918, and two months later the pandemic hits Barre," he said.
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