Quote Originally Posted by mikemiller View Post
Flu epidemic during 1918 is believed by many medical researchers to have killed more people than the bullets, shells, etc, in WW1. It was a particularly nasty strain. Work still going on to try to identify what made it so deadly - likely to be some unusual surface feature of the virus that allowed it to evade the human immune system
Bet some countries leaders would like to get their hands on that. Imagine the carnage it could cause without having to send thousands of troops over and extra spending on planes and bombs.

A very sobering and frightening thought