DIRECTIONS: Create a study guide with information about the following passage.
A Deadly Virus
The majority of American deaths during World War I
resulted from influenza, not battle wounds. Caused by a virus,
influenza could be a deadly illness. Unlike similar illnesses, which were
usually fatal only to the very old or very young, this form of influenza had
the power to kill healthy young people. When peace came in 1918, the returning troops
brought the virus home with them. It spread
rapidly, infecting people across the United States. In the ten months after the
war, more than half a million Americans died of influenza. The populations of
other countries around the world fared as badly or worse. The graph at right
shows
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