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Flu myths: The flu shot won’t make you sick, and whiskey won’t cure you

BY JACLYN COSGROVE | Published: January 6, 2013

The headline reads “Influenza Rages in Oklahoma City; Whisky is Needed.”

It was December 1918, and the Oklahoma City Police Department was getting inundated with calls, people requesting whiskey to, allegedly, alleviate their flu-like symptoms.

photo - Medical workers tend to patients in an emergency hospital set up during the 1918 influenza pandemic in Camp Funston, Kan. Millions of people, including 675,000 in the United States, died of the Spanish flu. Photo courtesy of the National Museum

Medical workers tend to patients in an emergency hospital set up during the 1918 influenza pandemic in Camp Funston, Kan. Millions of people, including 675,000 in the United States, died of the Spanish flu. Photo courtesy of the National Museum

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Between 20 million and 50 million people died during the 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, including 675,000 deaths in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and...
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