This is the true story of a monster killer, the 1918 flu pandemic, and how a young doctor fought to keep an entire village alive.
Holbert Nixon, fresh out of medical school, signed with a coal company to care for the several hundred immigrants who lived in Revere in western Pennsylvania and worked in the Revere mine.
˃˃˃ He was eager to begin his first practice, but it turned out to be more than he bargained for.
In just two years, in September, 1918, the entire village was sickened in rapid succession in the flu pandemic that killed quickly and indiscriminately throughout the world. It was wartime, and Nixon was unable to find help.,
˃˃˃ This story is an up close and personal account of what it was like to be sick with the HINI type virus in 1918.
It is a tale of a dedicated doctor whose selflessness, compassion and courage helped the villagers survive in the pandemic that killed more people in a year than the Black Death killed in a century..